D.H. Lawrence - Whales Weep Not! (read by Dylan Thomas)
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- D.H. Lawrence - Whales Weep Not! (read by Dylan Thomas)
They say the sea is cold, but the sea contains
the hottest blood of all, and the wildest, the most urgent.
All the whales in the wider deeps, hot are they, as they urge
on and on, and dive beneath the icebergs.
The right whales, the sperm-whales, the hammer-heads, the killers
there they blow, there they blow, hot wild white breath out of
the sea!
And they rock, and they rock, through the sensual ageless ages
on the depths of the seven seas,
and through the salt they reel with drunk delight
and in the tropics tremble they with love
and roll with massive, strong desire, like gods.
Then the great bull lies up against his bride
in the blue deep bed of the sea,
as mountain pressing on mountain, in the zest of life:
and out of the inward roaring of the inner red ocean of whale-blood
the long tip reaches strong, intense, like the maelstrom-tip, and
comes to rest
in the clasp and the soft, wild clutch of a she-whale's
fathomless body.
And over the bridge of the whale's strong phallus, linking the
wonder of whales
the burning archangels under the sea keep passing, back and
forth,
keep passing, archangels of bliss
from him to her, from her to him, great Cherubim
that wait on whales in mid-ocean, suspended in the waves of the
sea
great heaven of whales in the waters, old hierarchies.
And enormous mother whales lie dreaming suckling their whale-
tender young
and dreaming with strange whale eyes wide open in the waters of
the beginning and the end.
And bull-whales gather their women and whale-calves in a ring
when danger threatens, on the surface of the ceaseless flood
and range themselves like great fierce Seraphim facing the threat
encircling their huddled monsters of love.
And all this happens in the sea, in the salt
where God is also love, but without words:
and Aphrodite is the wife of whales
most happy, happy she!
and Venus among the fishes skips and is a she-dolphin
she is the gay, delighted porpoise sporting with love and the sea
she is the female tunny-fish, round and happy among the males
and dense with happy blood, dark rainbow bliss in the sea.
Thanks to star Trek Voyage Home Film they mentioned D H Lawrance-Whale Weep Not
Ditto! That's how I discovered this poem
how funny I'm listening to him right now because I'm watching the movie
yes me to my fav Star Trek movie! :-)
I'm watching ST: The Voyage Home on BBC America right now.
Here it is 10 years after your post and I'm sitting here watching ST, Voyage Home and I looked up this poem right after Kirk mentioned it, just like everyone else ❤️
Star Trek brought me here. Would love to hear Rae and Ghost spit this...
"Dark rainbow bliss." I love it.
Brought tears to my eyes
I am an atheist, but this is beautiful and I like how it is recited here :)
Beauty is an attribute of God---Al Jamal(in Arabic)---and even the atheist is unable to ignore or to sense this attribute of God that has been gifted to all humans along with many other spiritual virtues, and to higher mammals.
Here Thanks to Star Trek - The Voyage Home. "It is illogical to hunt a species to extinction." "Who said humans are logical?" Surely there is some logic and understanding and empathy to create such a poem...
Interesting that Dylan Thomas appears to make two errors in this reading- he deletes a line, and he reads the word "whales" instead of "males" in the second to last line. I'm delighted to find this recording.
Thank you, added to a playlist...
just amazing pure
Wondrous!
Whale, whale, whale!
A poem about whale sex in the deep?
@Iguanaseeyou God made poets to bring sanity to an insane world.
This poem does not make any sense at all. WTF?
Where were you when I was writing an essay about this goddamn poem? :(
Well I wish I'd done that. The grades haven't been announced yet, but probably I failed.
You're not too bright are you?