<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367380" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Mud Bath</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">So thrilled to bits, was he that day, <br>He raced towards the mud! <br>The elephant hell-bent to play<br>And also cool his blood! <br>He jumped with one almighty splosh! <br>The mud jumped skyward bound! <br>He wasn't there to have a wash, <br>Just there to fool around! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">'Oh, yeah! The mud gets everywhere! <br>Oh, yeah! This feels so cool! <br>Oh, yeah! Let everybody stare<br>And think that I'm a fool! <br>But this is what life's all about! <br>Not lazing in the sun...<br>Life isn't fretting, full of doubt...<br>Come on! Let's have some fun! '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So there he squished and squashed a while<br>And squelched the mud so nice...<br>To greet the world with one huge smile, <br>As if in Paradise! <br>To think, for him, such fun was free...<br>His mud bath felt so grand! <br>His Shangri-La, his ecstacy...<br>His private Disneyland! </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, February 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Mud Bath'. </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=367380" data-title="Mud Bath de Denis Martindale" data-description="So thrilled to bits, was he that day, He raced towards the mud! The elephant hell-bent to play And also cool his blood! He jumped with one almighty splosh! The mud jumped skyward bound! He wasn't there to have a wash, Just there to fool arou..."></div> </div> </div>

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