Ok, today (april 14) is, according to this little book I have (Earth Prayers From around the World), National Dolphin Day. I don't know what nation celebrates it, but it really doesn't matter. The point is to celebrate all ocean life. Here is a poem in today's honor (no title is listed in the book): One way the world could survive in joy is if the whole world worshipped whales. If ancient Egyptians worshipped cats, how much more we should worship whales! I really believe we should worship the whales. & regard them as superior (if not actually supreme) intelligentsias for they can nowise hurt us. Unlike most of the Gods currently worshipped. Their whole being is exultation & play. I believe we should apprentice ourselves to whales & dolphins more eagerly than to any human guru. The whales sing & play all day & when they're hungry all they do is open their big mouths (how can they help it if millions of krill happen to seep in). Yes the whales sing & play all day & don't have to mail their songs to any publisher whales in order to be free from factories & blow geysers of ecstacy all day long. The whales have no factories need no factories want no factories & sing & play & blow geysers of joy all day. Their only reason to go mad with anguish & agony are the lightning bolts exploding unaccountably into their brains, harpoons expertly hurled by beings made in image of Jehovah--the explosive harpoons of humankind. Aikido those harpoons, most whale-like human friends -Jeff Poniewaz
i love your poem. i think, all being walking or flying or swimming,or dancing in fire in mother earth must be venerated. i hope the pachamama take revenge one day, i want to be live in that day so i can see it.
I agree man, but I don't know that revenge is the best way forward. Just healing and rebirth, a new way for us and for them, harmony among all beings. Also, to make sure we're clear, this wasn't my poem. It was Jeff Poniewaz's.
