<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366956" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Attentive</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When meerkats stand and stare and stare, <br>Attentive they must be, <br>As if to prove how much they care<br>For friends and family...<br>No wonder, then, they gain respect, <br>From humans far and wide, <br>As from such duties none neglect<br>As they stand side-by-side...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their little eyes are on alert, <br>Their little minds on guard, <br>In hopes that none of them get hurt, <br>For tragedies hit hard...<br>While other meerkats scampered near<br>As if life seemed a ball, <br>Two meerkats stood, no sign of fear, <br>Merely surveying all...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In time, some others would replace<br>And give these guys a rest, <br>For now, they stood there, poker face, <br>Content to do their best...<br>Two heroes there, one young, one old, <br>Four eyes as black as soot<br>And theirs the story to be told<br>Because their hearts were good...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, April 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Attentive'. </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=366956" data-title="Attentive de Denis Martindale" data-description="When meerkats stand and stare and stare, Attentive they must be, As if to prove how much they care For friends and family... No wonder, then, they gain respect, From humans far and wide, As from such duties none neglect As they stand side-by-s..."></div> </div> </div>

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