<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367077" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Drying Off</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tiger's mouth was open wide<br>When he first saw the stream, <br>Because he knew what it supplied, <br>An answer to his dream...<br>The hot, hot sun was beating down<br>And sapping all his strength...<br>Yet there, amid the trees so brown, <br>Would be some peace at length.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So inward joys soon bubbled up, <br>Urged on in sweet surprise, <br>As if he were a week-old cub<br>So near to Paradise.<br>The water welcomed what leapt in<br>With one almighty splash, <br>With surface circles made to spin<br>And nearby fish to dash...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">An hour passed and he must leave<br>His Paradise on Earth...<br>His former life and times retrieve<br>And show what he was worth.<br>But first the drying off a while, <br>So he would look his best, <br>So he could make the ladies smile<br>When suitably impressed...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Drying Off'. </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=367077" data-title="Drying Off de Denis Martindale" data-description="The tiger's mouth was open wide When he first saw the stream, Because he knew what it supplied, An answer to his dream... The hot, hot sun was beating down And sapping all his strength... Yet there, amid the trees so brown, Would be some peace ..."></div> </div> </div>

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