<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=366988" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Brothers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two cheetahs look out with concern<br>At Nature in the raw, <br>With focussed eyes that seem so stern<br>At sights they can't ignore...<br>Each joins his father and mother, <br>No more the awkward child, <br>Together, brother and brother, <br>Two cheetahs in the wild...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">For everywhere, new dangers roam, <br>No matter where they go...<br>No matter, near or far from home, <br>They fight... or flee each foe...<br>Their fast legs save them from defeat, <br>To fight another day...<br>From predators too strong to beat, <br>These two must run away...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">As scavengers, they've got it made, <br>But fights just aren't their style, <br>When all the factors have been weighed, <br>They'd rather run a mile...<br>But come a fight they can't avoid, <br>They'll take it in their stride...<br>With valiant courage then employed, <br>Two brothers... side-by-side...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, July 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting<br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Brothers'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot.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=366988" data-title="Brothers de Denis Martindale" data-description="Two cheetahs look out with concern At Nature in the raw, With focussed eyes that seem so stern At sights they can't ignore... Each joins his father and mother, No more the awkward child, Together, brother and brother, Two cheetahs in the wild...."></div> </div> </div>

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