<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367001" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cheetah Glow</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">With those distinctive tear-stained eyes<br>The cheetah looked around, <br>With ears alert to realise<br>Each sudden nearby sound...<br>In hunting mode, the cheetah sensed<br>Each second one-by-one, <br>Alone, aloof and without friends<br>Beneath the burning sun...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sizzling light shone down all day, <br>Upon the cheetah's fur, <br>To warm its cold heart all the way, <br>Whatever must occur...<br>For cheetahs want to stay alive, <br>Regardless of the cost...<br>They fight a war so they survive, <br>Until the war is lost...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This cheetah's stare looked left and right, <br>For something unaware, <br>Before the creature's taken flight<br>On land or in the air...<br>As fast as cheetah legs can run, <br>Starvation is the foe, <br>Beneath the ever-burning sun<br>That makes the cheetah glow...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, November 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Cheetah Glow'. </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=367001" data-title="Cheetah Glow de Denis Martindale" data-description="With those distinctive tear-stained eyes The cheetah looked around, With ears alert to realise Each sudden nearby sound... In hunting mode, the cheetah sensed Each second one-by-one, Alone, aloof and without friends Beneath the burning sun... T..."></div> </div> </div>

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