<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367375" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mother's Favourite</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Of all her cubs, this one was best, <br>The lioness believed, <br>When by this one was so impressed, <br>Asked what could be achieved...<br>For now, a playful scamp, no more, <br>Yet eyes alert all day, <br>Exploring till he knew the score, <br>Content to know the way...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He wasn't too rough on the rest, <br>A few chewed tails, that's all, <br>Yet not too much as if a pest, <br>So that he'd always brawl...<br>He lived life well, yet somehow thought<br>There's so much more than this, <br>Yet by life now was firmly caught, <br>For it seemed utter bliss...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lioness chose to invest<br>With extra time to share, <br>At first the others hadn't guessed, <br>Then they became aware...<br>'What makes him special, Mummy, dear? <br>It can't be that he's cute...'<br>'He's special! Let me make that clear, <br>You see, he's quite astute! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, January 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Mother's Favourite'. </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=367375" data-title="Mother's Favourite de Denis Martindale" data-description="Of all her cubs, this one was best, The lioness believed, When by this one was so impressed, Asked what could be achieved... For now, a playful scamp, no more, Yet eyes alert all day, Exploring till he knew the score, Content to know the way..."></div> </div> </div>

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