Poem, poeticous.com:
One Hundred White-Sided Dolphins on a Summer Day by Mary Oliver
1.
Fat,
black, slick,
galloping in the pitch
of the waves, in the pearly
fields of the sea,
they leap toward us,
they rise, sparkling, and vanish, and rise sparkling,
they breathe little clouds of mist, they lift perpetual smiles,
they slap their tails on the waves, grandmothers and grandfathers enjoying the old jokes,
they circle around us,
they swim with us –
2.
a hundred white-sided dolphins
on a summer day,
each one, as God himself
could not appear more acceptable
a hundred times,
in a body blue and black threading through
the sea foam,
and lifting himself up from the opened
tents of the waves on his fishtail,
to look
with the moon of his eye
into my heart,
3.
and find there
pure, sudden, steep, sharp, painful gratitude
that falls –
I don’t know – either
unbearable tons
or the pale, bearable hand
of salvation
on my neck,
lifting me
from the boat’s plain plank seat
into the world’s
4.
unspeakable kindness.
It is my sixty-third summer on earth
and, for a moment, I have almost vanished
into the body of the dolphin,
into the moon-eye of God,
into the white fan that lies at the bottom of the sea
with everything
that ever was, or ever will be,
supple, wild, rising on flank or fishtail –
singing or whistling or breathing damply through blowhole
at top of head. Then, in our little boat, the dolphins suddenly gone,
we sailed on through the brisk, cheerful day.
The dolphin is highly evolved and intelligent – a healer of the sea. Its strength and grace propel it through the ocean’s waves, lift it up high to embrace the sun and sky. Splashing and laughing, it seems to joke with its dolphin and sea-going friends and put on a show for onlookers.
ADVICE: It may be a time for you to lighten up and live joyfully. Focus on the positive. Dance and play – by yourself, with others, with a whole pod of people. Embrace the fluidity of life to heal yourself with the broad smile of blissful existence.
“I felt such a deep connection with dolphins. I felt like they were the only ones who understood me.” – Lykke Li
Dolphin:
Mammal
Cetacean
Social
Intelligent
Playful
Marine
Worldwide
Photographer: Martina Nicolls
REFERENCES: A combination of the following Oracle cards were used (with a dash of my own lifelong learning).
Archangel Animal Oracle Cards by Diana Cooper
L’Oracle du Peuple Animal by Arnaud Riou
Messages From Your Animal Spirit Guides by Steven Farmer
The Druid Animal Oracle Deck by Philip & Stephanie Carr-Gomm
The Spirit Animal Oracle by Colette Baron-Reid
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