<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367267" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Intense</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">His hunger was simply intense! <br>This comes to leopards, too...<br>And till that empty gnawing ends, <br>He'll hunt the whole day through...<br>Only the starving understand<br>The desperate days he's known, <br>When cruel Fate withholds her hand, <br>As her heart turns to stone...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Each step, each stride, each newborn chase, <br>They sap his strength, of course, <br>Though once he had a noble face<br>And was a tour de force! <br>He now looks feeble, not on form, <br>A shadow of himself...<br>No longer feeling quite the norm, <br>He must rely on stealth.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lies in wait, for prey to come, <br>With hardly strength to cope, <br>With breathing slow, now playing dumb<br>And nothing left but hope...<br>Suffice to say, Fate sends a meal...<br>His torment meets an end...<br>Enough to let his body to heal<br>And he's soon on the mend...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, July 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting<br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Intense'.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">More Stephen Gayford poems here: <br>denis-martindale-dot-blogspot.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=367267" data-title="Intense de Denis Martindale" data-description="His hunger was simply intense! This comes to leopards, too... And till that empty gnawing ends, He'll hunt the whole day through... Only the starving understand The desperate days he's known, When cruel Fate withholds her hand, As her heart tu..."></div> </div> </div>

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