<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366937" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Always Awake</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three meerkats perched on yonder rock, <br>Their transfixed eyes steadfast, <br>Their predators, of course, to block, <br>No chance that they'd get past...<br>Alert, on guard, thoughts kept in check, <br>Three meerkats stood their ground, <br>Perchance to see a distant speck<br>Or hear a far-off sound...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">No uniform could represent<br>The valour in plain sight, <br>For family and sentiment, <br>Right there in broad daylight...<br>Defiant to the uttermost, <br>Resilient through and through, <br>As if some great eternal boast, <br>'We'll stay on guard for you! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Three meerkats, simple souls, no more, <br>Yet bold as brass each day, <br>That's something we'd best not ignore -<br>Courageous, come what may! <br>Stand tall, like meerkats throughout time, <br>Like heroes, know your place! <br>That way, you'll always be sublime...<br>No matter what you face! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br> Denis Martindale, copyright, May 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Always Awake'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com</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=366937" data-title="Always Awake de Denis Martindale" data-description="Three meerkats perched on yonder rock, Their transfixed eyes steadfast, Their predators, of course, to block, No chance that they'd get past... Alert, on guard, thoughts kept in check, Three meerkats stood their ground, Perchance to see a dis..."></div> </div> </div>

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