City Girl
Forgotten by the city girl, somehow,
A need for wild life.
A boy with the voice of the deer and dolphin
Lived in her city, quietly.
She found him, and thought to civilize him.
The tone of intelligent men who wrote books
Was in her voice when she spoke to him.
He learned her older name, Little Bear,
And loved her when she remembered.
She needed him, as teachers need students,
A turned around need of the forgotten one.
The voice of the deer and the dolphin
Sounded foreign to the girl who talked city.
A time came when she forgot his whereabouts,
And their conversations.
DolphinWords
that one is from the early seventies...and has a lot of interior, that is to say, personal, things in it!...anyway, it has notions that interweave through many of my posts, and the boy with the voice of the deer and dolphin became DolphinDeer, or DeerDolphin...one of my thoughtHobby collection of characters, toons and avatars as it were, that inhabit my imagination...I've named one of my World of Warcraft toons DeerDolphin, and for years I tried to imagine how to illustrate DeerDolphin, how to make a drawing of a character that is a Deer and a Dolphin, or somehow has the two combined, and found on WOW a solution...in WOW one can have 'pets', little monsters and such that follow your toon around like, a pet!...and one of these is called 'Fishy'...Fishy is a little fish, gold colored if I remember, that resides in a globe of water that floats in the air, and follows one's toon about...recently, another pet like this was added, Left Shark, and Left Shark is a little shark that is in a globe of water too...and, and, all I needed for my illustration is this idea, a dolphin in a globe of water that floats and follows, or even rides, a deer...and I have in mind to make the illustration, and when I have it drawn out, I'll post it, and more about DolphinDeer!...oh...but let me explain more of how this will look!...in Last Chance one day, in the beverage refrigerator, appeared a special beer brew with a label that depicted a Buck, a male deer with antlers, just the head looking forward, and between the antlers was a cross...Jergermeister or something it is called..brb...
deer antlers with cross beer label
The label on Jägermeister bottles features a glowing Christian cross seen between the antlers of a stag.[10][11] This image is a reference to the two Christian patron saints of hunters, Saint Hubertus and Saint Eustace, both of whom converted to Christianity after experiencing a vision in which they saw a Christian cross between the antlers of a stag.[
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/J%C3%A4germeister
So, for the DolphinDeer illustration I have in mind to have the forward looking Buck with antlers, and resting, floating, between the antlers, my Dolphin in a globe of seawater!...wiki's take on the origin of the story of the vision changes from time to time...and I've tried to study out the tale on the web several times...and there is a remarkable medieval story in one of those links...lemeesee if I can find it...
Saint Eustace
A series of calamities followed to test his faith: his wealth was stolen; his servants died of a plague; when the family took a sea-voyage, the ship's captain kidnapped Eustace's wife Theopista; and as Eustace crossed a river with his two sons Agapius and Theopistus, the children were taken away by a wolf and a lion. Like Job, Eustace lamented but did not lose his faith.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Eustace
It is a remarkable story, in fact, in looking about to re-find it, the whole group of medieval stories surrounding it are remarkable, and remarkably forgotten!...
gesta romance
As he was one day following the chase, Placidus discovered a herd of deer, amongst which was one remarkable for size and beauty. Separating itself from the rest, it plunged into the thickest part of the brake. While the hunters, therefore, occupied themselves with the remainder of the herd, Placidus swiftly followed this deer’s track. The stag scaled a lofty precipice, and Placidus, approaching as near as he could, considered how it might be followed yet. But as he regarded it with fixed attention, there appeared upon the centre of the brow, the form of the cross, which glittered with more splendour than the noonday sun. Upon this cross an image of Jesus Christ was suspended; and the stag thus addressed the hunter: “Why dost thou persecute me, Placidus? For thy sake have I assumed the shape of this animal. I am Christ, whom thou ignorantly worshippest. Thine alms have gone up before me, and therefore I come; but as thou hast hunted this stag, so will I hunt thee.”
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