<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367012" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Close Comfort</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two cheetah cubs stood unafraid<br>Together side-by-side, <br>Thus harmony was well portrayed<br>And thus personified, <br>Love's treasure trove, tranquillity, <br>Too precious to neglect, <br>Made manifest for all to see, <br>With mutual respect...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">We savour peace while it remains, <br>Like sunshine from above<br>That gently warms the dusty plains<br>As if God smiles with love...<br>The cheetah cubs breathe in, breathe out<br>And not much more gets done, <br>What need have they to run about<br>Beneath that sizzling sun? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their hearts beat gently, life goes on, <br>Contentment overflows...<br>Their sibling rivalry has gone, <br>But how long for, who knows? <br>Yet while peace nestles in each heart<br>And love indwells each mind, <br>Tranquillity can thus impart<br>Good reasons to be kind...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Denis Martindale, copyright, July 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Close Comfort'. </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=367012" data-title="Close Comfort de Denis Martindale" data-description="Two cheetah cubs stood unafraid Together side-by-side, Thus harmony was well portrayed And thus personified, Love's treasure trove, tranquillity, Too precious to neglect, Made manifest for all to see, With mutual respect... We savour peace w..."></div> </div> </div>

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