Illustrations, free after various examples of picture postcards

© Joke van der Ark 2012

 

On a high pitch

 

Whales are enormous and very big,

but surely they can jump.

They enjoy to squirt and pump

 

water through their nose

as if they hold a garden hose

right up in the air. They get a kick

 

bantering during their upbringing

in the deep sea. Whales aren’t really fish

you know. They speak on a high pitch

 

to give messages and make things clear

to friends who aren’t even near,

from far their talking sounds like singing.

 

“Lets go and jump, I’ll like that fine

Oh …you don’t feel like it today,

well all right we’ll do it next time.”

 

 

Rhyme  7