Death of a Dolphin

Beautiful poem. I really enjoyed it. Thanks for share.

how evil are those hunters to use harpoon to shoot at these beautiful dolphins. It must have tried to escape but lost in the end.

Morning Graham.

I know I have commented some 14 months ago and find this still a great hub.

But what I really want to say is that HP is really amazing, where after all this time our hubs are still getting visitors that are thrilled with having the chance to read yours and other fellow hubbers wonderful hubs.

Hope that warm weather that you have at the moment, comes over to Dusseldorf and stays a while.

Have a great week.

Jimmy........................aka Ghaelach

Beautifully written, but sad.

Thanks for sharing a sweet poem for such a bad way for a poor animal to end it's life.

Beautifully expressed and so true. It happens ever so often with other animals as well.

Well sir, I must conclude that you have a real gift. I felt the sense of loss, both for Jack and for the way of life that defined the bay before the boats came. Sadly, it is a reality in this world now. What a wonderful job of saying so much with so few words. I am impressed.

This brought tears to my eyes. Beautifully penned.

This was a heart wrenching poem about the death of Jack the dolphin who used to swim freely in that bay. They are such sentient beings!

Simple poem but very pithy and moving. I look forward to reading more of your verses and more.

This is sad, but beautiful.

It is so sad that there are some people who have no kind regards for such life, such intelligent and beautiful life as the Dolphin. This is such a touching poem that teaches us the value of life with Nature's own. Thank you, Graham.

A poignant message.

My "macho" brother, two years my junior, saw a mother partridge while walking in our 12-acre woods at the south side of our family farm. Several times he went back and would see the bird. Sometimes it would come remarkably close to him.

Finally, on one forest walk, he found nothing but her feathers. Angry? I'll tell you!

It just goes to show how deeply animals affect us.

Thank you for sharing.

Hi, that would totally gut me if I saw that happen, I love Dolphins, your poem was amazing, and told the story behind the cruelty so well, nice one Graham.

That was a really sad. If man will only learn to recognize that dolphins, whales and many other intelligent beings that fall under the animal kingdom are like humans a consciousness specie. We have no right to harm or kill them.

Short and sweet old albion i guess everywhere is survival to the fittest yes. The fishermen just see $$$$$ when they are on the water, some don't care about endangering certain species so sad.

Thanks for sharing!

Aw, this was so sad. I love dolphins. Seen them dancing on the waves and they are such a lovely sight.

Your poem is well written and powerful, your poem brought a tear to my eye. Thank you. jamie

Beautiful but very sad poem. Unfortunately this is something that continues to happen still today. I don't see the purpose of killing helpless and beautiful creatures. Why is mankind so cruel and wasteful?

This is beautifully done, but it also resonates with such sadness. Some life on this earth inspires beauty and wonder, it is hard to imagine that we would deliberately cause them pain, the Dolphin is a case in point. A very touching poem.

So beautiful it make me wish I had had the idea. Dolphins it seems are possibly the angels of the sea? Who does not love them who has a heart? Up and sharing.

Hi Graham.

I still am Annie to friends like you but always sign my name as Anne because that´s what I was christened :) As for keeping warm, it´s hot in the sunshine but brass monkeys in the shade LOl.

Hi Graham.

How sad it would indeed be to see a beautiful creature slain in this way, I would be broken hearted too.

Happy Christmas to you and yours Graham. Anne :)

Not at all a show of stewardship by those fishermen, but a show of wanton waste.

On Japan's Toshima Island, the citizens have registered all the dolphins in their waters as Japanese human citizens, so if anyone harms one, the perpetrator is charged with a crime. Dolphin deaths like the one in your poem have sigificantly decreased, there.

Rated Up and more.

Aw, now, there is no sense in doing something like that at all! Good poem to bring awareness to something so wrong.

Up and more and sharing

Blessings, Faith Reaper

How sad! We really don't care for the world, as God told us to do, and so we also suffer the results - and so does the whole environment.

I have always enjoyed your poetry, Graham, and this is no exception to the rule. What a sad state of affairs this whole ecology and environmental thing is....wouldn't it be wonderful if mankind found a way to live without having to kill other things in the process?

Nicely written Graham. A sad but true story that happens to often. The human race is the cruellest creature on this planet.

Ghaelach

Oh why would anyone want to kill a Dolphin? They are so friendly and smart. Your poetry touched me. Thank you....

Dolphins are such beautiful and intelligent creatures, I'll never understand why they, or any other creatures, are abused like this. They've even been known to protect humans. Beautifully told. Ann