<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367268" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Intensity</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The leopard looked with dark disdain<br>And ever-growing dread.<br>He sensed this day would bring him pain, <br>With trouble dead ahead.<br>A broken twig changed everything! <br>Of fear, he wasn't fond...<br>Who knows what fickle fate may bring? <br>Some creature lurked beyond...<br>He stared with great intensity, <br>Alerted and alarmed...<br>No longer strolling fancy free, <br>No longer feeling calmed...<br>How big and bold the danger was<br>As yet he couldn't guess...<br>And yet his heart went cold because<br>One fight steals happiness.<br>Reverse and run? Too soon to say...<br>New courage made him wait...<br>Perhaps this was his finest day<br>And he would celebrate.<br>If not, then death was way too close...<br>For tensions filled the air.<br>Two predators are vicious foes, <br>Like devils who don't care...<br>His claws were poised like daggers gripped, <br>Outstretched, the fight to win...<br>Death laughed at him, as from its crypt, <br>Yet leopards don't give in! <br>The fight begins! Not one relents! <br>The fur flies to and fro! <br>The leopard wins through violence! <br>His foe turned tail to go...<br>Alone, the leopard stood his ground...<br>With such intensity...<br>And with no other creature round, <br>He savoured victory! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Intensity'.</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=367268" data-title="Intensity de Denis Martindale" data-description="The leopard looked with dark disdain And ever-growing dread. He sensed this day would bring him pain, With trouble dead ahead. A broken twig changed everything! Of fear, he wasn't fond... Who knows what fickle fate may bring? Some creature lurk..."></div> </div> </div>

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