<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367305" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lazy Afternoon</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two little lions closed their eyes, <br>So tired in the sun...<br>No longer now the cool wise guys, <br>So spritely, full of fun.<br>Plum-tuckered out, as is the way, <br>As afternoons take hold...<br>Then little lion heads will sway<br>As their neck muscles fold...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their parents grin from ear-to-ear<br>To watch them fall asleep...<br>As sunbeams gently, softly steer<br>Them to their dreams so deep...<br>At first, they gamely stay awake, <br>Refusing to submit...<br>Then suddenly, all strength to take, <br>The battle's lost, that's it! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then little lion heads must fall, <br>For forty winks again...<br>As if obedient to that call<br>That even masters men...<br>I know they tried to do their best, <br>But now they're sleeping sound.<br>Their floppy heads with closed eyes rest, <br>To doze on dusty ground...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, January 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Lazy Afternoon'. </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=367305" data-title="Lazy Afternoon de Denis Martindale" data-description="Two little lions closed their eyes, So tired in the sun... No longer now the cool wise guys, So spritely, full of fun. Plum-tuckered out, as is the way, As afternoons take hold... Then little lion heads will sway As their neck muscles fold... ..."></div> </div> </div>

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