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Whale tips | Writing Challenge By Ellen Carr 08/22/13 |
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swimming in the sea,
mother whale and baby -
baby learner, teacher she.
“Stay close by me, baby
watch me, feed from me.
Learn our whale behaviours
before you must swim free.
Born with length two metres,
nine hundred kilograms,
you're still my little baby
(though not the sort for prams.)
Six months you'll be beside me,
grow bigger every day,
developing those whale-ish ways
stamped in your DNA.
Created to be grandiose,
designed for oceans deep,
you'll learn to breach and tail lob.
You'll learn to never sleep.
You need to surface frequently
between each dip and dive.
Half your brain must stay awake
so breath keeps you alive.
A blowhole is your breathing pipe,
peculiar to a whale.
You make a geyser when you blow,
each time that you exhale.
I'll teach you, son, a whaley song
of cadence and of love,
a song to sing for company,
a gifting from above.
We'll travel the Australian coast.
We'll reach Antarctic water.
When we return you'll be full-grown
and I may birth a daughter.
Though you'll be huge and humpy-backed,
though you'll be full of play,
I'll still be your whale mum
Until my dying day."
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