<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367073" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Doting Parent</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The Mother penguin gazed upon<br>The gift God gave to her<br>And there they stayed as God's light shone<br>On all that could occur...<br>Togetherness now warmed their hearts, <br>Just like the sun above, <br>Because that's how all friendship starts...<br>It's purely based on love...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">That's why they stared without a word<br>Into each other's eyes, <br>As if God's truth inside them stirred<br>So that they'd realise...<br>That love was all we need to give, <br>Beyond it nothing more, <br>For it endures the life we live, <br>So steadfast and so sure...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The winds may blow, the snow may fall, <br>The storms may rage all day, <br>Yet when true love makes its first call, <br>You know it longs to stay...<br>That's why the little one we see<br>Will one day share love, too, <br>With its own child that's yet to be, <br>Both thinking, 'I love you! ' </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, January 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Doting Parent'. </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=367073" data-title="Doting Parent de Denis Martindale" data-description="The Mother penguin gazed upon The gift God gave to her And there they stayed as God's light shone On all that could occur... Togetherness now warmed their hearts, Just like the sun above, Because that's how all friendship starts... It's purely b..."></div> </div> </div>

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