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To start it off, here's one from Holly:

Silently it spoke
Invisibly it moved on
It felt like winter

The ocean is deep
for the whales heart to beat
ban the killing fleet

Andrew down there
took me at my word
invisible summer

Woosh, spin around
There it is!
Tail sinks down deep

it's breath from ages
the impact just seconds
recorded noises tears causing

Oh splashing dolphin
leaping majestically
what a nice surprise!

When I was at Nags Head in July 2004 the one morning I was on the beach without my camera was the morning I saw two dolphins playing in the surf. Tons of photos at http://www.planetmike.com/photos/nagshead/ (but no dolphins!)

I am on the beach
It's a beautiful morning
Where is my camera?

Dear Andrew
You must have fallen under the spell of John "boy " Morris ( re the Haiku) but hey thats totally cool by me! I have been thinking for several days that i should write to you folks and tell you that I think you have done the "biz" ( or the "dogs bollocks" as we would say in England) on this campaign. You have achieved more than any campaign that I can remember- my first one was '91. The photography was truely outstanding ( Big thanks to Kate and Jeremy).
I liked the old mans driving up the chuff end of the Nissin Maru. Also a big thanks to everybody who sat through hours of freezing cold & wet in the inflatables- let alone all the harpoons wizzing around. And hey guys - just for dealing with the weather - for all those spilled coffee cups, Upside down toast, ,burst open fridges at 4 in the morning, rolling out of you bunk at night and fighting to stay on the toilet when you are half way through a poo. You have total,utter respect from this quarter.

Here is one for John .....( not Haiku) he gave it to me a long long time ago in antarctica.

There is no wind
Nor does the flag move
It is the heart of man
that is in motion.

I'll get the kids in bed & contemplate some haiku later .

As a committed atheist,humanist and post deist i shall leave you with the Book of psalms 107: 23-24

They that go down to the sea in ships,
that do business in great waters;
These see the works of the lord ,
and his wonders in the deep.

Andrew ,hun, i am not expecting you to put this on the web - but do me a favour - stick it on the crew notice board. Big Hug to each and every one of you and the old man can have two( if he has a shave recently.

Loves
lena

The song of the whales
Inspires life on this planet
Let them live in peace

And another one...

The deep wide ocean
Is better than chocolate
Brings me back to life

I love Haikus!

Sirens
breaths
they are me
I'm then
these magical
singers of the sea

My four year old son
says he wants to change the world
he's heard the whale's song...

Bees gather pollen
Squirrels stash acorns in trees
Whales hide nothing yet live deep

Murdered ocean kings
Bloodied hands of humankind
Let them live in peace

Cold sea of death
Arrives Greenpeace ships
Saves the sushi

I have 2 of them:

Whales, full of splendor
Hunters, why kill the divine?
Antarctica cries

Breathtaking starkness
Frozen exhales sting my face
Sun never ceasing

I have writen a poem about the recent pursuit of the whaling ships in the artic. If it helps you in any way please use it. we all need to help in any way we can.

in artic waters, deep and blue,
A battle, a chase, a struggle ensues,
To save and protect Minke and Right,
a fight without guns, malice or spite.

After a month of tailing the vessels
That slay these great cretures for portions on tables,
The crusade is could off but not through defeat,
from lack of suplies, fuel and sleep.

A whale! A harpoon!
And a spray of cold water
A life is saved

I don't deserve the prize 'cause I've seen this elsewhere, but here it is anyway.

Japan’s whaling fleet
Sets sail for the Antarctic.
This is not science.

Beautiful white ice
Waters turn fallacious red
The research persists

Stop killing the whales!
It is cruel and quite gruesome
One day we'll regret

They are our brother
One heart beating with our own
The voice of nature

Greed drives this cruel kill
Arrogance and appetite
We must stop this pain

Our heroes witness
Icy waters, blood is spilled
Yet they battle on

People noticing
Greenpeace and Sea Shepherd win
Keeping creatures safe

So, Stop the whale hunts!
Ocean creatures swimming free
Safe from the harpoon

Ocean hunters seize
Whale out against the "meat"
God's creatures swim free!

Boat Soldiers in black
Water salt splashes cold
Whales Surface at night

Por favor piensen en su familia ellos pagaran las consecuencias de sus actos.Ustedes se iran pero ellos se quedaran a sufrir el resultado de lo que han hecho.

Softly the whales are calling
in the mist of morning dawn,
we're an ocean away.

Spring brings the hunter
Endangering whales must end
Who will them protect?

Surtsey Pods

warmed by lava rock
father and I watch the orca
elders with their young

Effortless Diver
Antarctica's kin of sea
Beware the Grey Ships

blue sea
blue eyes
blue hvale
blue sky
blue mind....
green hope 27.01.06

White silence surrounds
solitude; gliding, a leap -
roaring the shot rips.

1.
The vast cold sea
Men struggle amongst the waves
Blood red pouring.

2.
The wide toothless maw
Sudden white, draws tears unbidden
The soft white belly.

A minke leaps
A harpoon plunges
Blood, froth and death

a beautiful whale
side by side with her lil calf
trajedy strikes them

in the water BLUE
the hunt goes on and on
now the waters RED

Blue are the skies, seas,
Birds flying, whales swimming, safe,
Spring's coming, rejoiced!

Whale seen
In winter shallows
All Hope lost

RIP Thames whale

Writing a haiku

With seventeen syllables

Is very diffic'

Our blue earth
Is in great danger
She needs help

You should be
Ocean Defender
Sign up now

Height of God's beauty
The ocean's symbol of pride
Don't let the whales die

Magnificient Choice
In The Presence Of Salty Love
Life Is Energy

One more,

Liquid Energy
Surround Me In Your Thoughts
As You Bless All Life

Thank you,
Hal Manogue

PS. My book: Short Sleeves A Book For Friends 2006 Collection, will be available in 3 weeks at shortsleeves.net

Whales swimming freely
Endless oceans embracing
Eternal journeys

Harpooned Whale Dying
Ocean Shedding Crimson Tears
Stop the Whaling NOW!

Massive mammals swim
Beneath the icy water
Trying to survive

Salutations amicales là-bas sur les mers ...
I am from Québec, Canada . As a sea kayaker, I paddle a lot on the ST-LAURENT, often with some good friends of mine ... the whales ! I am also a member of a coalition against exploration and explotation of petroleum and gaz in this area ; we want a moratory on this buiseness but it is very difficult : we just stop them for a few months ... we will need the help of Greenpeace .
If you come down near GASPÉ in Québec, just give me a call so we can do some kayaking together!
By the way I'm sending you my Haïku, in ( French ) :
SOLIDARITÉ
NOUS NOUS DEVONS ENVERS ELLES
NOS SOEURS LES BALEINES

Laurent

with the longest days
come the killers and their prey
Stop, we say - but when?

Sun offers long day.
Penguin watch as whale go down,
bows and seems to pray.

Here's my haiku:

A dolphin here plays
And leaps into the blue sky
As God parts the clouds

i hope i get to win something. that would be cool. either way, haiku rock

Whales have voices, just like us.
They're killers can't hear them, so who can?
Th heart and soul of a whale bonding man.

Through sun-speckled jets,
great gray forms risen, fallen:
their brief moment gone.

Andrew on board the/
Esperanza do you fish/
Or merely listen?

White nights, such long days.
Penguin watches whale go down,
bows and seems to pray.

haha, haiku, in Malay!

di ufuk sana,
biru laut memikat,
mengejar mimpi.

roughly means,

on the horizon,
the blue ocean calling us,
chasing a dream.

The wind blows harshly
Spume covers the deep red sea -
Dyed by my pal's gore

Beauty of Earth's depth
Raze silent by wanton greed
Kingdoms of man fail

The ice sways
a whale surfaces
gone is the moment

this does sort of rhyme
with what one should be having
a whale of a time

Whale's crying because
more of her sibblings're dying
Oh...capitalism!

"Losing the Monarchy"

Whales - king of the seas
Remember what became of
Weimar Republic?

There she biows
whoosh whale hit
there she goes!

a Deep Blue there stands
life blooms while he spreads his wings
badness within them

Crimson splashes,
The ocean, brown and wounded.
Foreign Cries and Screams,
No one heard us.

Sharpened Arrow,
Peirced our heavy skin,
Helpless death,
No one will listen.

Soon an echoe of,
where once, we were.

People wait on a cold shore
Evening kissing waves
The rise of a blue grey fin

blue dolphin leaping high

the grey tide scatters

hope stirs in the wise ocean

Kim

whaling must end
this email i must send
our oceans we should defend

A mother and calf ,humpbacks
frozen in the old daguerrotype,
hang matyred in the Cape Brett net.

A Haiku for everyone-

Hail leviathan!/

suspended in crystal blue,/

get away from the whaling crew

here's one for now:



A harpoon cuts the air

blood stains the icy waters

Innocent life is lost.

more later! gotta think...

Splendid gentle whale.
So sad that one-day you may,
Be gone forever.

Vastness of oceans
The sea erupts
A Whale! Nature's greatness

Scientific research???
My ass
LEAVE THEM ALONE!

the whale, a symbol
of wise strength, love and freedom
let's follow their lead

Whitsunday sailing
Autumn sun, breast feeding son
mother whale feeds calf

the last haiku describes one of my most beautiful "whale moments" ....sitting up on deck feeding my (then) 6 month old, the waters still and clear - sighting a whale resting near the surface of the water - realising that there was a small dark shape resting next to her......thinking "hello sister", I hope that you and your baby are well and happy.......they are not so different from us n'est pas?

Wise eyes reflecting
Cool in the light and water
Images of steel

As the last great Whales chant their slaughter
Feel the Earth vibrates , hear the Ocean mourn
See me standing firm by them , steady as i am .

Here are my two haiku:

All ocean creatures
Have been under siege too long
Must free them from wrong /////

All of marine life
Is now standing on thin ice
See it with your eyes

Here, where i stand,
Far from the massacre
That's for sure,
Still, i hear
The call of the wild,
It ecoes in my mind
during the night
It's asking where have
our humanity gone

the Whalers took my voice but I dont know why they still raise hell

the tide still flashes my black and white skin like a movie projection screen

Echoes of sadness
through dark blue skies of water -
Numb would be silence

In the summer of my dreams
there be whales dancing
let's dance over the rainbow.

the senseless slaughter
majestic ocean creatures
leaves a void on earth

Whales- biggest creatures of the sea
Now available in 1 kilo containers. But,
You have the power to set them free!!!

there are already so many things to kill...poverty, disease, illiteracy, communalism...
so why kill whales?

Hunters out in the sea again.
All the world's sorrow
in an eye of a whale.

Dive down in the blue

Away from those above you

This is not a game

To the depths it dives
And then . . . The Song
Don't kill The Song

Title: After The Whale

Barbed harpoons...
Punctured, sliced, vanquished
These peacemakers of the deep

Mighty majestic
He knows not what's happening
Winter seems colder

Why do we do this?
Do we kill just for money?
Winter forever

Voice of an angel
The waves smile
Harpoon breaks the spell

As the last great Whales chant their slaughter
Feel the Earth vibrate , hear the Ocean mourn
See me standing firm by them , steady …

Grounded Emperor
Steward of your precious egg
Winter's endurance

Will my children see
what we take for granted now
whales in the sea

the ocean's quiet

the whales are on their way...

to a better winter

Ancient language voiced
Aquatic lulubies sung
Can you not hear them crying?

God
save
the
whales...

No more whaling!!

The whale in the Thames
We tried in vain to help him
He now helps his friends

Whales have voices, just like us.
They're killers can't hear them, so who can?
Th heart and soul of a whale bonding man.

At night in the twilight
when the world is fast asleep
the whale is on the move
until the first light anew

No shell like a snail
It should be our holy grail
Everyone - save the whale!

Déjame sentir tu olor.
Entre el eco de tu voz.
Me estremezco cuando yo te miro.
Cuantas veces hasta hoy cuentan historias de amor, de bellas princesas sumergidas.
Eres tormento, eres sustento, por ti muero y vivo.
Con tu rumor nos hablas, tu gemido es el de un niño.
Quiero ser parte de ti, de tu universo sin fin, muestrame tu corazon!!!

please! help us!
our life is unique! if we have a hope, we will have all! don´t kill just for money!

The docile giant
Should be spared a harpoon fate
In peace he shall live

the whale swims out

to the sea water it goes

where to? no-one knows

Ocean's mighty king
Brutally murdered by man
Deep blue you won't see

For your flesh so magical
Says the crime perpetrator
Behind tradition he hides

In your marine realm
You became a vulgar pray
Hunted down like Moby Dick

Man took your freedom
Because that's what he is good at
Taking, killing, winning....

We need

a whale

to swim to Tokyo!

Hunters at the sea again.
All the world's sorrow
in an eye of a whale.

Whispers in the dark
The sorrowful song of wales
Now silenced by man:-(

Gentle sea giant
Ancient soul and nature's friend
We will help you sing

A liquid firework,
a small white horse,
cold water, cold metal, cold man.

They dwell in the sea
Its were they forever belong
Let them be.

Whales dawn chorus herd
A song on the oceans breath
Silence strikes with spears

hoshigarimasen
katsumadewa
we want nothing till we win

__________________

sentience in the dark
cool embrace of the ocean
when will we know them?

_________________________

eat eat hungry ape
think thee not of all thee rape
eat whilst thee still can

my ocean size friend
do not discriminate him
because of his skin

A big whale
is jumping in the ocean
I love whales.

Humpback Whales in the sunset
red water all around
the Ocean is singing
my dreams flying with them

No fish, bowl is hungry,
No whales, ocean is lonely,
No death, executive pocket is empty.

Snow on the surface
Her spirit warms the deep sea
Swim freely, blue whale

Where the whale is found

Carcass hanging from a ship

The world is watching

My first haiku. It is inspired by a photo I saw of a dead whale being hauled up onto the back of a ship. What a waste of a magnificent creature.

Beautiful creature,

Swim gracefully from cold minds,

Who kill for money.

Beautiful are they
Stop them from dying in vain
Let their tails swim free

calf sinks under ice
mother nudges the child up
life seeps from a wound

man with heavy heart
his father taught him to hunt
he teaches his son

witness death with rage
draw a line and say no more
not all people wait

stillness then a splash!
gulls cry eager for for food
whales return with joy

as the ice all melts
we will soon be with the whales
don't upset them now

Bright shiny red
stains the vulnerable sea
my heart cries

Azure water clear
Creatures evading textbooks
Caught in a blind net

Azure water clear
Creatures evading textbooks
Caught in a blind net

Salty spray flying
Mighty tail slaps raging sea
But not strong enough

Fin above diamonds
Cutting through water's surface
Curiosity

I'm a member of a Greenpeace student organization at the University of Miami and I thought this contest sounded fun, so I had our group come up with a couple Haikus as an ice breaker game. It was lots of fun and here's what we came up with....

Coral reefs are neat
very colorful and bright
we should save them now

We love big mammals
majestic in the big blue
let them swim freely

Now I'd like to think we could be Haiku masters, but others may not agree. But it was a fun activity and got us thinking about the oceans! Thanks!

Whaling Harpoon Cold
Blood Drips to Stain Human Kind
As Brutal Killers

Giant creatures are
Greedily speared, say goodbye
To another whale

sailing into
the red sunset
I watch tv

In the deep,
there goes the,
king of blues!!

Mother whale and calf/
Compassionate? All sorrow/
Lifts in icy air/

Lord of the cold sea
Death strikes in his silver flank
sea is scarlet blood

Lord of the cold sea
Death strikes in his silver flank
sea is scarlet blood

(wrong email address last time)

Up from the deep blue
Soars a natural legend
Living to charm men

Another whale dies
What a cost
Humanities loss

I swim a drop's calm

I'm a whale..I'm a man..I..

I am...I am life

Swim on friend, swim on
for those that can't, for those,
on plates in Japan

Antarctic sunrise

Spring droplets cast a ripple

Oh! I am alive

Majestic marine/
serene water-spirit glides/
singing his sad song.

Down in the blue oceans deep
The gentle Whale swims peacefully
On crashing waves above, the sea gulls shriek is not heard.

Man hunts in metal boats with cruel intent
As the sea runs red with murder
The world does nothing but look the other way.

Shed a tear for the whale, for what is next?

Ocean deep and strong
Holds the whale in her embrace
Like a proud mother

We call her mother

Man and whale share her- one earth

Embrace your brothers

Nature created great life, in all shapes and sizes.

Millions of years of evolution it took to create great and old species like whales...


Beauty and perfection for our own eyes to enjoy and admire?


or prey for our own to kill and consume?

IF YOU POSTED A HAIKU ON THE 2ND OF FEBRUARY, AND YOU CAN'T SEE IT HERE, PLEASE RESUBMIT. WE HAD A SLIGHT TECHNICAL PROBLEM!

Great blue friend of mine
I apologize for man
For those who murder

stop whaleing......
more and more children and their parents love our earth,love everybody in the earth.

Apathy - - bloodlust
Hunt the ocean Goliaths
Who then shall rescue?

Many english Haiku writers believe that english Haiku can convey the meaning in 3-5-3 that would need 5-7-5 in Japanese characters. I have written some of both...one is for Lally

Morning hunt
Ice flows from heart not
Antartic

Eyes that crave
Blind to spring flowers
Deep inside

Summer sun
White nights made so dark
Foolish men

Factory ship
Vomits blood and tears
Predator

Oceans grace
Cold steel slices air
Violent death

November
Minke families swim
Quick! Danger!

Ah! Rebith:
Japanese hunter
Born as whale?

Money in purse
Can't wash out Kamma
Blood that stains.

"Harvesting" -
Killing, stealing, murderous hunt.
Shame on you

Sweet Mysticeti
Meditating in the ice
Deep ocen mystery

Minke, Fin, Sei, Blue,
Humpback, Pigmy, Bowhead, Right,
Protect you we will

Blue you were once king
Two hundred thousand of you
Ocean genocide

Joy when you pass by
Balaenopteriae!
Your song lifts our hearts

Now they play safely
Eubalaena Australis
ocean stars on postcards!

and lastly for Lally and all the crews:
My Baleen so huge
To swallow up all your love
Minke song of thanks

Kangaroo Island
Seals relax in summer sand
the joy of freedom

White ice and silence
Each moment holds a new hope
A safe home for whales

Orca's call
The Minke listens
Run whale run!
(NB would playng orca calls into the water next to whaling ships chase away whales in danger???)

Nissui and Sealord
Selling us tins of sorrow
Don't buy into that!

Cascading blue fires
Lick the ashes of kindess
In a sea now torn

Magnificence lost
From logic like a drowned fish
As we rob ourselves

La Megattera

Echi dall'abisso e suoni come canti
Soffi nell'aria,richiami come pianti
Scrosci d'argento sulla superficie
sul dorso lunga e stretta ha una cicatrice
Davvero Voi Insensati volete far la guerra
all'Immagine di Dio
su questa Terra?

My Haiku -

Leave us alone please
Why? For we do you no harm
Learn to share our world.

Ocean mammals sing
A conversation with nature
-We commit murder

Unfathomable-
Mother nature, hear her howl
“Whales need living too”

salti gioiosi
bolle d'aria macchiate
da un freddo arpione

Now is the winter-
The whale eating murder
Of our discontent

Blue Ocean
Deep and vast
Home of the soul

Vast icy water
A minke whale surfacing
Breaking Sunlight

Watching the Whales
One is shot down, a deep cut
Who will help it up?

Desolate expanse
Wasted life watching wasteland
Grandpa saw one once

Hear a puff of air
Great singers of the ocean
Don't stop their songs

Majestic singer
Monsters of greed and metal
Halt its haunting song

Oceans painted red
Empty waters reflecting
The sea in the sky.

We need air to breathe and food to eat,
He does too
We know love and we know hurt,
He does too
We have a warm heart
He has one, too
So we are alive...
He is too!

Pitiless ice storm,
Seaweed swaddled otters float
Despite the pelting.

Underneath the waves
A whale sails like a spaceship
Over mountain tops.

Weeping for the beast
Who knows secrets of the sea
He belongs only there

Spirits of the sea
Swimming majestically
Why can't they be free

Cold winter's waters
Against their smooth muscled skin
Dive to your freedom

Moonlight shines on high
On Arctic's feezing waters
Free the whales forever

Water engulfs him,
His ethereal song sounds.
Soul of innocence.

------

Blue swirls like a veil.
Winter waters caress her.
Mother of the sea.

------

Too kind for words: whale.
Protector of the weak: whale.
Mother of seas: whale.

I see crimson blood
In the summer of my Life
Whales weep in my Heart

Wait the whales' songs
while the strongs
sleeping in the pound.

Ay, mare.
Ay, maresita.
¿Por qué canta,
canta la ballenita?

Canta que llora,
que está llorando.
Y lágrimas saladas,
va derramando.

¿Qué pena, mare?
Ay, maresita.
¿Qué pena tiene, mare,
la más bonita?

Pena que pena
que es la penita.
La última,
la última ballenita.

Son of Samurai
Don't look with an evil eye
Let whales never die

Swift shapes agliding
blow after leap after blow
Southern summer's joy

White summer abounds
shadowing the waters
the whaling fleet draws near

Whale song sounds
stranded she sings an mneonic
melody for man

Innocent Creature
Great, peaceful beast of the Sea
Protect and love them

and

Winter Gray Male Whale
No fears in the World except
The Nature of Man

Stranded Pilot Whale

Worried eyes touch deep - I help

Two souls connecting

Crystal Blue
Grace it holds
Grey Soul of the Deep

My silver lining
of shields and swords defending
my sea I protect

Lured whale dives deep
hooking Earth's heartbeat, to rise
echoing her song.

Earth turns to greet moon
Sun's night beacon lights the sea
Glimmering black fins

Earth turns to greet sun
Red clouds gather on the sea
Tears for the hunted

...

the great ocean mourns

the last whales chant their slaughter …

let’s stand firm by them

...

Pumpkins in spring,
Brings costal shores abound,
Future breeding grounds..

Be a whale
Be a human
be alive

whales whales whales!!!!
when it live it create a melody in the ocean
melody that make the ocean sleep in peace
when it die it make the ocean crying like they lost their king
please please dont kill them dont let them die!!!

The ocean goes up
The mighty blue whale goes down
Trust only Bob Brown!

winter morning
a whale's song
in each ocean heart

ship at dawn
a whale's song
in each ocean heart

Blue ocean envelopes the giant diving deep
to escape the harsh world of men,
the harpoon and grenade.

When the whales die
A piece of my heart sinks too
And I cannot help but cry

deep under water
devestation caused
by the human terror

death we do witness
red clouds amoungst blue beauty
this is our doing

death we must stop
stand as one and sing for love
together we are an ocean

The whale cannot sense
Blocked by ships and humans
The tools of his demise

CONTEST IS CLOSED.

Thanks for all the great poetry.