<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367378" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mountain Sentinel</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Upon a cold and humdrum day, <br>Snow leopards sit alone, <br>As if to pause, to rest, to stay<br>Upon their mountain throne...<br>And so this creature let life pass<br>Upon his craggy rock, <br>Where cold snow covered blades of grass, <br>Their present growth to block...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Time passed so slowly like a dream<br>As if no place to go, <br>Mid temperatures now quite extreme<br>As it began to snow...<br>The creature sighed and tapped his paw<br>And flicked his tail again, <br>But it kept snowing more and more<br>As he sat there and then...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was his lot in life, you see, <br>His portion if you will...<br>Lord of the mountain, let's agree! <br>Oh, my, ain't that a thrill? <br>I'd rather stay as warm as toast, <br>Cold mountain sentinel...<br>I'd rather stay at home than boast, <br>'Behold, I'm Lord of all! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0"></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Denis Martindale, copyright, July 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Mountain Sentinel'. </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=367378" data-title="Mountain Sentinel de Denis Martindale" data-description="Upon a cold and humdrum day, Snow leopards sit alone, As if to pause, to rest, to stay Upon their mountain throne... And so this creature let life pass Upon his craggy rock, Where cold snow covered blades of grass, Their present growth to bloc..."></div> </div> </div>

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