<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367031" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Cool Water</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">As if cool water called his name, <br>The tiger had obeyed, <br>Remaining calm as his first aim, <br>Thus by cool water laid...<br>Upon the rocks he flicked his tail<br>A little less and less, <br>For beauty spots like this can't fail<br>To spread some happiness...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tiger spread his weight around<br>With tooties to one side, <br>As if his Shangri-La had found<br>And here he would abide...<br>No other creatures dared approach<br>The growling so-and-so, <br>Now settled like a real slow coach<br>Who didn't want to go...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cool water soothes the savage beast, <br>That's just the way it is, <br>Now from the greatest to the least, <br>Seduced by utter bliss...<br>Well, good for him! I'll give him time<br>Before I take my bath...<br>With patience, it could be sublime<br>And not my epitaph...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Cool Water'. </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=367031" data-title="Cool Water de Denis Martindale" data-description="As if cool water called his name, The tiger had obeyed, Remaining calm as his first aim, Thus by cool water laid... Upon the rocks he flicked his tail A little less and less, For beauty spots like this can't fail To spread some happiness... T..."></div> </div> </div>

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