<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367340" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Lying In Wait</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tiger played the waiting game...<br>His heartbeat cool and calm.<br>No doubts, no fears, no guilt, no shame<br>And no sense of alarm.<br>For all was still, sublime, serene, <br>So tranquil and at ease...<br>Apart from him, so cruel, so mean, <br>Despite his golden fleece.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tiger strained his stretched back ears<br>While hunger caused him grief...<br>God only knows what noise he hears<br>Behind his gritted teeth.<br>The aching burden carried on, <br>Tormenting deep within, <br>As hunger's slave, his pride had gone, <br>Yet he must not give in.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The tiger sneered at such delays<br>So unpredictable...<br>And groaned at Nature's wily ways<br>So unreliable...<br>But come the evening, all went well, <br>He'd had his fill once more...<br>What tragic tales this beast could tell, <br>So cold in tooth and claw...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2010.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Lying In Wait II'. </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=367340" data-title="Lying In Wait de Denis Martindale" data-description="The tiger played the waiting game... His heartbeat cool and calm. No doubts, no fears, no guilt, no shame And no sense of alarm. For all was still, sublime, serene, So tranquil and at ease... Apart from him, so cruel, so mean, Despite his golden..."></div> </div> </div>

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