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Please note that the core of this story has been around a long time -- not sure of it's true origin, most likely it is not based on factual truth but is a myth -- you cannot kill a wolf in this manner. It does capture the imagination -- it did mine . . . so I share it with you here.

Here is my take on an old Eskimo story – I call it -- Thirsty Love

As a young boy I watch with interest the small man Wolf Hunter - a wise father of the hunt He begins an old ritual coating his knife blade rich animal blood and tallow fat freeze Wolf Hunter adds another blood-tallow layer freeze and another – freeze A frozen tallow-blood knife Wolf Hunter knowing the wolf fixes his knife in ground blade up prays and leaves . . . Grey wolf sniffs air and begins to run blood is on the wind he licks, tasting the delicious blood-tallow He howls into the night and licks faster a blood lust building lapping the blade until the sharp edge bites Feverishly now, faster and harder Grey wolf licks the blade in the arctic night great is his craving for blood The insatiable blood-thirst now being satisfied by his own warm blood the naked blade biting his tongue his carnivorous appetite devouring In the pale morning light Wolf Hunter finds Grey Wolf dead in the snow stooping down he picks up his knife I stand . . . frozen – sicken by the sight Wolf Hunter looking at me says . . . to be consumed by your own desire is a dangerous and deadly foe Years later staring at the bottle hands shaking -- eyes filled with lust a vison: a grey wolf consumed . . . dead the howl of the wolf-wind beseeching To be consumed by your own desire is a dangerous and deadly foe \_____/> /\ /\ David Meade 12-12-2014 Live Generously

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Kp Nunez

Date: 8/23/2015 4:19:00 AM

Poking in your poem closet, I found this, David. Riveting story. Yes, I have heard this in speeches but the poetic narrative has a power all its own. Thank you for sharing this and for adding the parallel lesson at the end. It is more dangerous indeed to be imparting lessons yet fail to apply them to our own selves. Awesome write. Another 7 and fav. PS. How are you, my friend? hugs!

David Meade
Date: 8/23/2015 9:12:00 PM

Thank you dear Kim for your kind visit and friendship! All is well -- getting my two youngest daughters off to college has taken a lot of time. I have many poems running in my head that I hope to some day write. All the best my dear . . .

Bl Devnath

Date: 3/7/2015 12:01:00 PM

Rightly said here the essence at the end. First time i feel it is covered with charade but finally got. i feel 7 here. Thanks for sharing this gem, my beautiful friend. Loved always,bl

Casarah Nance

Date: 1/9/2015 7:43:00 PM

You are such a great story teller!!! everything of yours I read I love! you rock!

Bill Yates

Date: 1/8/2015 9:28:00 AM

That is very imaginative, so much so that I can hardly stand to read it. I can almost feel the cut. Good work!

Sharlotte Newan

Date: 12/22/2014 11:44:00 AM

COOL

Monterey Sirak

Date: 12/17/2014 4:17:00 PM

Wow! Images that leap off the page flinging a powerful message.

Maurice Yvonne

Date: 12/15/2014 8:30:00 AM

I am glad you re construct these important stories. Well done. What you do here is a great gift to all, please never stop. I also admire your honesty always. I was not aware of this story and you enlightened me, who could ask for more.

Rhonda Johnson-Saunders

Date: 12/14/2014 12:31:00 AM

Oh wow, a powerful message with such vivid imagery, my heart is still racing! This one will stay with me...you retold the story in such a great way and really emphasized the moral lesson...hugs, Rhonda

Brenda Meier-Hans

Date: 12/13/2014 8:42:00 PM

A wonderful lesson to be learned here. The problem was getting too the end. I was cringing so bad I could hardly finish reading this lol

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/13/2014 11:06:00 AM

oh my gosh, I read the top part this time and saw it was based on lore. Sorry I missed that the first time. I had gone just straight for the poem.

Connie Marcum Wong

Date: 12/13/2014 12:26:00 AM

David, I think you told this story very creatively and well. I was drawn in to the end. Your last line says it all!

August Fanon

Date: 12/12/2014 10:09:00 PM

It's hard to describe my feeling about this poem because the story is not original. Here is another version of the same story given in a speech on an intro of a Hip-Hop album that I really like by Dead Prez. The man giving the lecture is Omali Yeshitela, he is the leader of the Uhuru Movement which is a socialist political organization: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VJktslo1P2w I'm not claiming that Yeshitela is the author of the story. The story is obviously very old.

David Meade
Date: 12/13/2014 12:58:00 AM

You are correct that the core of this story is not my own. I first hear it some 40 + years ago when I was a kid and have since heard it numerous time. All I was doing here was retelling a story with a moral ending. I believed the story was in the public domain and I prefaced the story in the notes that it came from the Eskimos. If I am wrong I will take down the story.

Charmaine Chircop

Date: 12/12/2014 8:14:00 PM

It is fearful indeed when self control is lost by carnivious desire. Controlling our instincts is what makes us more human than any other animal. Powerful Message here!

Cherl Dunn

Date: 12/12/2014 7:44:00 PM

Really loved your work on this one, nicely done my friend, and thank you for your comment on my the valley aurara, sorry about this being so short but I had a early and long day, cheri

Shadow Hamilton

Date: 12/12/2014 4:34:00 PM

what a powerful message David great pen hugs 7 + fav

Andrea Dietrich

Date: 12/12/2014 4:30:00 PM

oh my gosh, this is brilliant. I will fave this one. Where are you getting these marvelous stories? Are they based on true Indian lore ? Or are you completely making them up?

Liam Mcdaid

Date: 12/12/2014 4:14:00 PM

outstanding story david very beautifully painted pal

Olive Eloisa Guillermo - Fraser

Date: 12/12/2014 1:57:00 PM

powerful and the message is so clear... :)! with a beautiful message

Tim Smith

Date: 12/12/2014 1:40:00 PM

A fabulous tale with great imagery and deep meaning....a7 and fav from me

Anne-Lise Andresen

Date: 12/12/2014 11:51:00 AM

- A poem that gives me some goosebumps ....... maybe I read it a bit "deeper" than what opinion is ...... but, a really well written poem, David - .... love your small "shapes" :) - oxox // Anne-Lise :)

Gary Bateman

Date: 12/12/2014 10:32:00 AM

David, This is a great narrative write here!! Extraordinarily well-done. I read it again and again because of the interplay of the words with the images and vice versa. Your final two verses paint the real deal with "lust." A definite "7" here and this one's a FAV!! Best Always . . . and have a great weekend!! Gary

Eileen Manassian

Date: 12/12/2014 9:20:00 AM

What a story, David. How real. You just drew me in to the story and I anticipated the sad ending...and...and I related to it. I know this lust. I know how it can kill. Thanks for sharing.

David Meade
Date: 12/12/2014 3:06:00 PM

My sweet little one!! thank-you for your kind visit and comment. We all have our demons (wolfs) that hound us . . . great is the courage and skill to stand up them -- everyday!! Your the best!