<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367291" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Just Friends (Intro)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">One day, David Attenborough came across some tigers! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>And... here, we see, two white tiger cubs...<br>And... for what it's worth, they can see us as well.<br>There they are, together, side-by-side, <br>Seemingly without a care in the world...<br>And... rightly so, with their parents close by.<br>For in their eyes, we are the intruders, <br>Simply because they were here first...<br>And... who are we to disagree<br>With their two adult white tigers, <br>So near, yet, thankfully, so far away? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">The day began with a scout around, <br>With the cubs at each other's tails...<br>Just friends, yet preparing themselves, <br>Their eyes firmly set on the future, <br>The years ahead, the joys and sorrows<br>Of tomorrows yet to be...<br>Their tails flicking up high like cobras, <br>Trying to avoid the next friendly bite...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Sibling rivalry, starting young, starting today, <br>Perhaps lasting for a few more of their years, <br>Perhaps no serious disaster to intervene...<br>Just friends encroaching on each other's space, <br>Nothing too alarming, just whippersnappers at play.<br>Not exactly innocent, yet not exactly guilty either.<br>Just friends, young-at-heart, competitive, <br>Just tail chewers and chompers having at it...<br>Watching the day go by, just like little cubs do...</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=367291" data-title="Just Friends (Intro) de Denis Martindale" data-description="One day, David Attenborough came across some tigers! And... here, we see, two white tiger cubs... And... for what it's worth, they can see us as well. There they are, together, side-by-side, Seemingly without a care in the world... And... righ..."></div> </div> </div>

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