Kathleen Jacobson: "Whale Watching", poem and watercolor

Whale Watching
Tiny boat
on the ocean 
rises and falls 
like the breath
in my chest

The gray whale
crests her hump
curls back deep
into darkness
before she rises

again, a blast
loud, wet, together
we exhale
all that must
be cast out 

expel with power
spouts of salt,
water and air
inhale life
tail fluke

slaps the waves
calls to my
ancient soul
sister whale
descends, deeper

I follow

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Kathleen Jacobson has been writing poetry all her life and she weaves her deepest feelings into poems. For her, it is healing and creative at the same time. Ms. Jacobson has published poems in various poetry Journals, and she has had a blog at the Huffington Post where she wrote about her experience helping a Syrian refugee family who is still close to her heart. She has had poems published in Huffington Post, Poetry Quarterly, Rivers Poets Journal, Lullwater Review, C.G. Jung Journal: Psychological Perspectives, and the Altadena Poetry review Anthology 2017. Ms. Jacobson is a student of Japanese tea ceremony. She is an interfaith seminary student and does community volunteer work toward an ecological civilization.