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Classic and Contemporary Poetry
DEER HUNTING, by MAY FAIR
First Line: Half hidden near a narrow mountain lane
Last Line: In hoping for the safety of the deer.
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Hunters
First Line: Half hidden near a narrow mountain lane
Last Line: In hoping for the safety of the deer.
Subject(s): Deer; Hunting; Hunters
Half hidden near a narrow mountain lane
Are hunters camped beneath the fragrant pine.
They think their mission will not be in vain
If dreams of bagging deer convey a sign.
Devotedly as pilgrims at a shrine
They sit before their tents and polish guns.
At break of dawn they climb the steep incline
To search the slopes familiar as deer-runs.
The wives in camp become the anxious ones
Who fear their husbands may somehow get hurt.
They may forget to laugh at his best puns
But not to make him wear his scarlet shirt.
They wish him luck but soft hearts are sincere
In hoping for the safety of the deer.
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