<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367117" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Flat Out</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The sun was mighty warm today! <br>The lioness concurred...<br>She found a pleasant rock to lay, <br>A spot that she preferred...<br>And then she sort of melted there...<br>And with that rock was one, <br>Such that she simply didn't care<br>About that sizzling sun...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Her heavy eyelids flickered still, <br>Some consciousness to keep, <br>As if a final act of will<br>Before she slipped to sleep...<br>Her breathing in and breathing out<br>Were simply not the same<br>And should there be a single doubt, <br>She'd swear, the sun's to blame! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Flat out, she was, her tail as well, <br>Like one long stretch of string...<br>As if the victim of a spell, <br>She couldn't do a thing! <br>The mighty huntress met her match! <br>Flat out, for all to see...<br>And there she stayed, some sleep to snatch, <br>From noon till half-past-three...</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 'Flat Out'. </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=367117" data-title="Flat Out de Denis Martindale" data-description="The sun was mighty warm today! The lioness concurred... She found a pleasant rock to lay, A spot that she preferred... And then she sort of melted there... And with that rock was one, Such that she simply didn't care About that sizzling sun... ..."></div> </div> </div>

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