If a Fish Fell in Love with a Bird
Every day is a new adventure when you’re an
artist. Each new client brings their own viewpoints and wishes that inspire.
That’s what keeps it fun and challenging. A recent request for painted furniture was
both. The challenge came from getting the raw wood prepped, painted, and
protected enough so the furniture can now live out in the sweltering humidity
and blasting sunshine of SW Florida. The
fun part came in the motif request. It started with shell motifs for the back
of Adirondack chairs and arm rests. That’s par for the course here. But it was the request for a mermaid on the
table center that was unusual. The request was for the mermaid to be flying a
kite. The mermaid represents the lady of the house and the kite represents the
man of the house. The outcome is absolutely darling. There’s an old country
question, “If a fish and a bird were to fall in love, where would they live”?
The answer in this case is on a lanai in SW Florida overlooking the Caloosahatchee.
The base color for
the furniture is called True Turquoise. Perfect color to represent the sky and
sea:
In writing this
article, I came across this poem
The Fish Who Loved a
Bird- by Lycus
A fish fell in love
with a bird one day.
What was his reason I
could not say.
The bird flew down
its reflection to see,
the fish jumped high
and cried "Marry me."
The bird simply
laughed and flew away,
"Birds marry
birds!" was all she'd say.
But while she flew
nothing else came to mind,
save the face of the
fish she was leaving behind.
No other had spoken
to her such words of love,
not the swiftest
falcon nor the sweetest dove.
To the beauty of his
fins a bird could not compare,
or to the strength of
his muscles as he lept through the air.
Suddenly she turned
though she couldn't say why.
Back to the water she
quickly did fly.
"Oh beautiful
fish how can this be,
a bird of the sky and
a fish in the sea?
We never could marry,
our worlds are apart.
So why cruelest fish
have you stolen my heart?"
The fish gave his
reply, and his words sang true.
He told the lovely
bird what in his soul he knew.
"Beloved my
beloved, oh do not despair,
though I swim in the
ocean and you in the air.
Nothing in this world
could keep us apart,
if your love is as
true as the love in my heart."
The fish thought
about it as best he could,
till he had an idea
that would do them some good.
"Sometimes
before sunrise at the edge of the world,
I have seen a place
where creation's unfurled.
Come with me my love
and our fates we will cheat.
Come to this
enchanted place where the sea and sky meet."
The bird and the fish
both made their merry way,
and live happy and in
love to this very day.
Now from the look on
your face you think my tale a lie.
You don't believe a
beast of sea can marry beast of sky.
These things that I
sing, I can prove they are true.
The children of the
couple are known to all of you.
A penguin is a bird
that calls the ocean home.
What of flying fish? It is in the air they
roam.
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