<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367285" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Jungle Apparition</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">At first, the tiger merely strolls<br>The jungle paths he knows, <br>As if he has no plans, no goals, <br>Till inner hunger grows...<br>It's then another hunt begins, <br>It's then he's most alert, <br>It's then his instincts must convince<br>That now's the time to hurt...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He stalks new prey, perchance to live, <br>As carnivores before, <br>He seeks to steal and not to give, <br>As if it were a chore...<br>Yet Nature chooses what must be, <br>For lions, tigers, bears...<br>And each must serve his destiny, <br>His dreams and his nightmares...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He's a ghostly apparition, <br>His colours help him blur...<br>He won't find an intermission, <br>Till things were as they were...<br>With tricks like these, the tiger strolls, <br>The jungle paths he knows, <br>Yet now with plans, yet now with goals, <br>As inner hunger grows...</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 'Jungle Apparition'.</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=367285" data-title="Jungle Apparition de Denis Martindale" data-description="At first, the tiger merely strolls The jungle paths he knows, As if he has no plans, no goals, Till inner hunger grows... It's then another hunt begins, It's then he's most alert, It's then his instincts must convince That now's the time to hu..."></div> </div> </div>

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