Monday May 11, 2009, 2:25 am
There is blood on the ice floes off Labrador

Hot, fresh, young, innocent blood

Delicate flensed bodies washing up on the Labrador shore

A pogrom of death - the cause of that scarlet obscene flood.


Oh vile mankind, what foul crime hast thou wrought?

How do you justify this massacre of baby seals?

Your evil for three decades, we have stubbornly fought,

Helpless as your vicious clubs inflict millions of kills.


Your ice breaking ships crushing frail bodies to gore,

Black booted killers invading nurseries of ice,

Bloody flensed tiny bodies falling like apples to the ocean floor

A shameful slaughter blessed by preachers in the name of Christ


Babies born on the ice in the falling drifting snow,

Warm babies with coats of white gold.

Never the freedom of the depths will they know,

Denied the experience of life so their fur can be stolen and sold


Slain by thugs with merciless souls for money,

Slain without conscience or thought,

Supported by lies dripping political honey,

Clubbed, crushed, drowned and shot.


The seven deadly sins curse the sealing man

Mass slaughter motivated by drooling greed,

Grisly decks awash with blood their only plan,

Living in denial of their horrific black deed.


Gluttony driving them to kill ever more

Insatiable appetites for the unclean profits of death

Upon Nature’s children they wage a cruel relentless war

Bloody carnage strengthened by alcohol and meth.


Killing to satisfy the vanity of fashion,

Killing to adorn conceited high class whores,

Babies viciously slaughtered without compassion

Bodies boldly displayed and bartered on foreign shores


Do they envy the seals their freedom and beauty?

Do they envy their innocent eyes?

Or is it all just bloodlust for easy booty?

Lust that stains the ice scarlet under the late winter skies?


A greedy, gluttonous, foul lust that feeds the sealer’s pride

Providing the raw material for shallow vanity,

Choices must be made when cultures collide

To favour sweet life or surrender to violent insanity


Violent cultures respond with violent wrath,

Death reigns supreme in the sealer’s perverse culture,

Young bodies skinned into profit their only math,

Feeding off innocent life like Homo Satanic vultures


The missionaries once used the baby seal, a message to convey,

To explain to the Inuit the concept of the Lamb of God.

The Inuit word “kotik” became sacred from that day,

For the Inuit understood the value of the seal to the cod.


It was a sacred circle of life long since forgotten,

Now that the Beothuk are gone and no more,

And now bodies of baby seals lie on beaches foul and rotten,

And the cod have disappeared from the waters offshore.


Both species, victims of the ignorant arrogance of man,

A portion of the sacred hoop lies fatally shattered,

The sands of interdependence through the hourglass have ran,

The web of diversity has been painfully scattered.


The ice lovers from Greenland are facing doom,

Those that survive the clubs facing an even graver danger,

There is less and less ice and thus less room.

Smaller and smaller grows the ice floored sacred manger


When the innocent Arctic lamb is gone,

And the cold wind blows silently over dark lifeless waters,

Will it only be then when we see we are wrong?

And seals - a semi-forgotten myth to our sons and daughters.

Monday May 11, 2009, 3:21 am
beautiful !but so sad

Monday May 11, 2009, 5:31 am
lovely, and truthful, full of passion and concern

Monday May 11, 2009, 12:40 pm
His poem brings tears to my eyes since it's all true. He's a caring gentleman. Tx Claudia

Monday May 11, 2009, 1:32 pm
NIce poem. Well seals have Europe on their side. Now to tackle the Canadian end of it.

Monday May 11, 2009, 1:54 pm
thanks Claudia,(as tears roll down the cheeks)

Monday May 11, 2009, 2:52 pm
Very Beautiful

Monday May 11, 2009, 3:37 pm
it's so sad this happens every year. I am so glad that the Olympic Commitee decided to veto Harper's plan to make seal skin part of the Olympic uniform. No room for politics in Olympics!

Monday May 11, 2009, 5:07 pm
Beautiful poem ! noted , thanks .

Monday May 11, 2009, 6:44 pm
So very beautiful and soul wrenching. My heart howls for the suffering....so many for what? How vile the human race has become....

Monday May 11, 2009, 9:20 pm
How about we stop all Canadian tourism advertisements, and Petition to BoyCott Their Olympics? Because pleading, in countless ways for how many decades, is touching other countries, but not Canada. Since Money is what matters, lets petition against spending ANY money which supports Canada. And with the Olympics around the corner, what a perfect opportunity to REMIND the public what Canada is REALLY LIKE? Just a suggestion...

Monday May 11, 2009, 11:28 pm
canada kills seals and other animals they do not care about life

Tuesday May 12, 2009, 9:03 am
Thank you, Claudia

Tuesday May 12, 2009, 10:48 am
This is so touching and so how I feel.

Tuesday May 12, 2009, 4:41 pm
Absolutely heartbreaking, thanks Claudia

Tuesday May 12, 2009, 5:38 pm
Sad, but real and true, unfortunately!

Tuesday May 12, 2009, 11:44 pm
So sad. Maybe one day there can be a poem of victory for the seals.

Wednesday May 13, 2009, 4:56 am
" I am so glad that the Olympic Commitee decided to veto Harper's plan to make seal skin part of the Olympic uniform"
Patricia I didn't know that. Harper is my//Canada's Prime Minister. What a goof and extremely stupid to even suggest such a thing. Mindless.

Wednesday May 13, 2009, 3:24 pm
Noted, thanks Claudia. And thanks to Paul Weston a true hero. Thanks for everthing you do Paul.

Friday May 15, 2009, 9:49 pm
This beautiful Man is My Hero and Role Model, and friend on myspace. When I win the lottery I will be giving him a lot of financial support.. I hope it happens soon, I just bought a subscription to 649Lotto here in Canada, and with every draw so far we had a number or two, but once we had 3 numbers… I LOVE CAPTAIN PAUL WATSON!!!! PS: Did you know that: The Killing of Penguins, gulls, cormorants, puffins, dolphins and right whales is Sick and barbaric and that The Global Warming or Climate Change is just one of the culprits, but so is Pigs & Chicken in YOUR plate: America alone consumes around 700 million pounds of bacon each year. What do they feed to pigs to make them fat faster? Each year they feed 28 million tons of wild-caught fish (including anchovies, sardines, mackerel, and herring) to pigs and chickens around the globe. Fisheries targeting forage fish are concentrated in four areas of the world the western coast of South America, northern Europe, the Atlantic seaboard of the US, and Alaska. Scientists have raised concerns that a 50 per cent increase in global aquaculture in the past 10 years will seriously affect marine ecosystems already under threat from acidification of the oceans caused by climate change. Species dependent on forage fish include penguins, gulls, cormorants, puffins, dolphins and right whales. Penguin disappearance is providing evidence for the belief that the birds are facing a gauntlet of environmental challenges, from climate change, commercial fishing, pollution and even tourism. If this is true, penguins will go extinct before their time. When will the world convince itself of this reality and decides to stop this massacre of nature and wild life? http://current.com/items/89774831_pigs-in-your-plate-are-killing-our-penguins.htm .. A report by Usha Lee McFarling of the Knight Rider Newspapers, December 6, 1998, states that 40,000 penguins are killed each year by oil spills off the coast of Argentina. Pollution in the ocean also reduces the ability of penguins to reproduce. BY YOU SUPPORTING THE DEVELOPMENT OF MORE OIL AROUND THE WORLD, THESE THINGS WILL HAPPEN, AND MORE THAT YOU DON’T KNOW UNTIL IT’S TO LATE FOR HUMANS!! It’s not to late right now, but it’s close enough,, Please Stand up and fight against All Country’s Holocaust on Innocent Animals!!