The Aquatic POV

A fish swimming the ocean

Found a shell within the sand.

He held it to his fishy ear

And through it, he heard land.

Try it.  Aquatic treasures here.

A Starfish Tale...

...by an unknown author

 

A man was walking along a beach when he saw a young boy. Along the shore were many starfish that had been washed up by the tide.

The boy walked slowly along the shore.  When he spotted a starfish, he reached down and tossed the beached starfish back into the ocean.

The man, hoping to teach the boy a lesson in common sense, walked up to him and said, "I have been watching what you are doing, son. You have a good heart, and I know that you mean well.  But do you realize how many beaches there are?  And how many starfish are dying on every beach every day?  Do you really think that what you are doing is going to make a difference?"

The boy looked up at the man,  then down at a starfish by his feet. He picked up the starfish and gently tossed it back into the ocean.  "It makes a difference to that one,"  he said.

Starfish and other ocean creature charms can be found here.

Kind of On Porpoise

THE PORPOISE

by Ogden Nash

I kind of like the playful porpoise,

A healthy mind in a healthy corpus.

He and his cousin, the playful dolphin,

Why they like swimmin like I like golphin.




A porpoise... a dolphin... it's whatever you want it to be.

When the Sardine Begin the Beguine

Remember the song "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid?  You know...

The newt play the flute
The carp play the harp
The plaice play the bass
And they're soundin' sharp.
The bass play the brass
The chub play the tub
The fluke is the duke of soul
(yeah)

They ray he can play
The lings on the strings
The trout rockin' out
The blackfish she sings
The smelt and the sprat
They know where it's at
An' Oh. That blowfish blow

Well, the sea creatures on this bracelet are the ones who sang back-up.  They played the steel drums, too, but those aren't on the bracelet because they're hidden behind giant clam shells.

You'll see the smelt and the sprat, the blowfish, the plaice...  You'll also find a dolphin who sings tenor, four seahorses who are tone-deaf and merely dance like some back-up singers of old, some sea turtles who sing bass, two starfish who just want to be stars, and two Kissing Fish.

Kissing Fish are quite rare and are never found in captivity.  If they were, they'd be kissing everyone and everything, and no one would be able to blow bubbles or swim.

The group hasn't worked much since The Little Mermaid came out, but they've been working on a demo.  It's almost ready and soon you'll be seeing their faces everywhere.

The pressed glass fish, by the way, are songwriters, and a lot of their new tunes are on the demo.  Their reasoning was sound: if they kept singing Disney hits, they'd have to pay a lot of royalties.  Better to perform their own work.

So keep an eye out for them.  (The porcelain dolphin is handling PR.)

Tale of the Green Whale

You've heard of the Blue Whale, the Humpback, the Orca,
And those tiny whales off the coast of Majorca.



The Pilot, the Pygmy, the Beaked, the Beluga,
The Gray and the Sperm and less-know Strap-Toothed-a.



But out of the whales (with baleens and without)
You never once met the Green Whale, I've no doubt.



A wonderful creature, the whale who is green
For he has the power to make oceans clean.



He purifies seas with a slap of his fin,
Neutralizes pollutants that people dump in.



He makes special reefs for all the ocean fishes
And creates kelp forests with splashes and splishes.



He banishes oil; he can un-do red tide.
How does he do it?  Well... that's classified.



Alas, the Green Whales lives in imagination
But if he were real, there'd be cause for elation.



Yes, if he existed, how great it would be
For all of the creatures who live in the sea.

Your own Green Whale can be found here.