<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367290" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just Friends</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">To look at them, you'd be amused, <br>For two white tiger cubs<br>No longer yawning or confused<br>Both used their claws as clubs.<br>They pounced upon each other's back<br>Some squeal of pain to make...<br>And then they'd cut each other slack<br>As if both on a break...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But pretty soon, they'd start again<br>And chew each other's tail...<br>They'd calculate the moment when<br>To make the other wail...<br>You'd think that they were enemies! <br>The way they carried on! <br>The way they tugged on ears then squeeze<br>Till every sound had gone...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And yet these two enjoyed their fights, <br>Their squabbles to and fro, <br>Their constant contests brought delights, <br>More than you'll ever know...<br>But as their brand new day soon ends<br>Their bashing brawls depart...<br>That's when they lie there, now just friends<br>With true love in each heart...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, February 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">This is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Just Friends'. </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=367290" data-title="Just Friends de Denis Martindale" data-description="To look at them, you'd be amused, For two white tiger cubs No longer yawning or confused Both used their claws as clubs. They pounced upon each other's back Some squeal of pain to make... And then they'd cut each other slack As if both on a break..."></div> </div> </div>

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