{"id":35269,"date":"2018-01-06T12:13:49","date_gmt":"2018-01-06T12:13:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/?p=35269"},"modified":"2018-01-06T23:09:17","modified_gmt":"2018-01-06T23:09:17","slug":"orca-captivity-and-freedom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cooksdelight.co.uk\/blog\/2018\/01\/orca-captivity-and-freedom\/","title":{"rendered":"Orca captivity and freedom"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The immortal the undying<br \/>\nThe great expanse of sea<br \/>\nThe indestructible everywhere<br \/>\nWhere Orca&#8217;s like to be<br \/>\nPods of special creatures<br \/>\nTangible and true<br \/>\nPhantoms with the haunting sounds<br \/>\nApex predators who<\/p>\n<p>Love the light and freedom<br \/>\nSo humbling to see<br \/>\nA genuine curiosity<br \/>\nIts where they choose to be<br \/>\nPhenomenal and physical<br \/>\nYet graceful to the core<br \/>\nSo mindful and so beautiful<br \/>\nSomething to adore<\/p>\n<p>Their amazing colouration<br \/>\nThe truest camouflage<br \/>\nOf unbelievable wonderment<br \/>\nWith their  entourage<br \/>\nGliding with such virtue<br \/>\nResplendent in their soul<br \/>\nAmazing vocalization<br \/>\nAnd just so in control<\/p>\n<p>Their freedom you can feel<br \/>\nThe true excitement in their heart<br \/>\nTheir frame of mind their humour<br \/>\nTheir ancestry from the start<br \/>\nSo humbling to be around<br \/>\nTheir movement so serene<br \/>\nSo relevant so pertinent<br \/>\nNo herring or sardine<br \/>\nStands a chance for shoals<br \/>\nAre quickly dispatched which is why<br \/>\nSharing always daring<br \/>\nTheir prowess levels high<\/p>\n<p>To be amongst them swimming<br \/>\nIs an antidote<br \/>\nTheir contrariness is eligible<br \/>\nYou feel them in your throat<br \/>\nThe positive display of life<br \/>\nSuch a fulfilling thing<br \/>\nA freshness and a newness<br \/>\nAnd sincerity they bring<\/p>\n<p>To imagine they are captured<br \/>\nBy the corporatocracy<br \/>\nThe Sea Worlds with their balance sheets<br \/>\nAnd their vile autocracy<br \/>\nPrivileged to subjugate<br \/>\nTo imprison and to keep<br \/>\nThem in a bath of chlorine<br \/>\nand exclude them from the deep<\/p>\n<p>These truly social beings<br \/>\nWhose possessive tendency<br \/>\nWho possess a state of order<br \/>\nIt is their harmony<br \/>\nLucid and intelligible<br \/>\nOrganized and true<br \/>\nThrust into a bathtub<br \/>\nIn an artificial blue<\/p>\n<p>Slatternly and muddled<br \/>\nConfused convulsed and wrong<br \/>\nOrphaned and deserted<br \/>\nThe uniqueness of the throng<br \/>\nIt is, so despairing<br \/>\nAbandoned and alone<br \/>\nOverwhelmed with boredom<br \/>\nAnd of seeds you hadnt sown<\/p>\n<p>Time becomes forever<br \/>\nSpace becomes forlorn<br \/>\nThe sands of time perpetual<br \/>\nEternity will warn<br \/>\nThe beating heart inside you<br \/>\nThat perpetuity<br \/>\nWill exhaust the spirit<br \/>\nAnd curtail longevity<\/p>\n<p>Feeding sharing caring<br \/>\nThe cornerstone for you<br \/>\nLiving with variety<br \/>\nThat fluidness all through<br \/>\nMutable and changeful<br \/>\nMercurial and loyal<br \/>\nHunting all together<br \/>\nWhen the sea itself does boil<\/p>\n<p>With energy and movement<br \/>\nWith mightiness and power<br \/>\nAll that potentiality<br \/>\nCalled upon each hour<br \/>\nAnd now an inability<br \/>\nDisabled in a way<br \/>\nTossed a bucket of dead fish<br \/>\nA sterile barren tray<\/p>\n<p>Incapacitated<br \/>\nWeakened by it  all<br \/>\nNothing here is natural<br \/>\nImpoverished you fall<br \/>\nFoul of health and happiness<br \/>\nDisarmed by it you<br \/>\nSuffer very rapidly<br \/>\nFor what the  humans do<\/p>\n<p>Stagnation and torpidity<br \/>\nA lifelessness today<br \/>\nSluggish and immobile<br \/>\nYou just pass time away<br \/>\nBecoming apathetic<br \/>\nBanished and just lost<br \/>\nAnd it pervades your very soul<br \/>\nAnd really that does cost<\/p>\n<p>There is no depth to speak of<br \/>\nA sloping concrete wall<br \/>\nDipping and declining<br \/>\nIt really does appal<br \/>\nEverywhere is contorted<br \/>\nAnd cambered in a way<br \/>\nJust artificial smoothness<br \/>\nAnd how our minds then play<\/p>\n<p>Tricks on us,we tumble and we crash<br \/>\nAgainst the side<br \/>\nThe noises of loud music<br \/>\nAnd the water slide<br \/>\nThis human fluctuation<br \/>\nA commotion in a can<br \/>\nGetting agitated<br \/>\nWhen all this began<\/p>\n<p>Laboriously I haul myself<br \/>\nAround the bathtub and<br \/>\nAm pickled by the chlorine<br \/>\nI do not understand<br \/>\nThe mentality of audiences<br \/>\nLied to everyday<br \/>\nAs we face our mortality<br \/>\nAnd for this you people pay<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The immortal the undying The great expanse of sea The indestructible everywhere Where Orca&#8217;s like to be Pods of special creatures Tangible and true Phantoms with the haunting sounds Apex predators who Love 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