<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366919" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>African Evening</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Isn't this nice? ' the lioness said, <br>'A summer breeze and day near dead<br>And crystal clear enough to search, <br>To hunt again, if I've the urge.<br>Of course, I might just have a snooze... <br>For now, I'm fine, nothing to lose.<br>No cubs to crush this quiet time...<br>The day's gone well, in fact, sublime.<br>So belly down and front paws stretched, <br>To watch the sky this day has sketched...<br>To gaze serenely without cares<br>And look at clouds pass by in pairs.<br>Life's not so bad, still lots to learn.<br>I'll find a mate, when it's my turn.<br>There's no rush yet - this year, next year.<br>I'm quite content just lying here...<br>I've got no stomach pains today -<br>No cause to kill or hunt new prey.<br>No need to see death haunt the eyes<br>As suddenly my next meal dies...<br>For now, it's peaceful as can be -<br>There's no sign here of misery...<br>There's just the sun... and clouds above...<br>And, somehow, these things seem enough.<br>No thirst have I, as evening calls, <br>No lions here, no evening brawls, <br>No lions roaring back and forth, <br>Just nothing south, east, west and north.<br>This land is mine and mine alone -<br>A greater peace I've never known.<br>I'm getting sleepy in this sun, <br>Yet glad to know my work is done.<br>So sleep it is... just lying down...<br>To rest again, take off the crown, <br>To put aside one's majesty...<br>To savour life, as one born free...'</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'African Evening'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Denis+Martindale">Denis Martindale</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366919" data-title="African Evening de Denis Martindale" data-description="'Isn't this nice? ' the lioness said, 'A summer breeze and day near dead And crystal clear enough to search, To hunt again, if I've the urge. Of course, I might just have a snooze... For now, I'm fine, nothing to lose. No cubs to crush this qui..."></div> </div> </div>

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