Song Of The Whale Poem by Miraj Raha

are you not bored alone?

This 7 stanza poem, “Song of the Whale, ” elegantly depicts a scene along the Argentine Ocean, when day transitions to night and then the author witnesses a “sweet euphony, echoed in the breeze” of a pod of whales. This tightly crafted poem, written in rhyming couplets, creates a vivid scene that can be experienced physically, spiritually, and finally, musically through the author’s word choice. He writes: “I wished under the commune of stars, when suddenly the ocean’s scene alters/a sweet euphony in the breeze/my senses were aware, but soul appease.” He then describes the communion of the whales: “soon the queen [whale] answered his call/with a fitting reply/stunning to us all/an ethereal minstrel, edged her voice/a lover’s song, staged in elegant poise. The poem begins and end quietly and peaceful, with all of its focus on setting the scene to describe the whales. The last two lines: “I was wandering lonely in the night/night’s farewell, a peaceful sight” makes me think that the observer got his wish and was lonely no more. I think there allot of depth to gotten out of this well-written poem. I’m also attracted to the use of imagery for sound (vs. visual imagery) using both words and rhyme. Beautiful poetry!