<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367415" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>On Guard</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It's no good sitting on the fence, <br>Complaining life's too hard! <br>For surely it would make more sense<br>If you remained on guard! ? <br>Like meerkats do, the whole day long, <br>Regardless of the cost, <br>Defiant 'gainst the giant throng, <br>Refusing to be bossed! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Two meerkats faced their mighty foes, <br>Their whiskers all a-twitch! <br>Yet knowing they'd not come to blows, <br>'Cos they could swiftly switch! <br>Like lightning streaks across the sky, <br>Or comets chasing stars! <br>They'd leave their foes still asking, 'Why? '<br>Still standing, facing grass! </div><div style="margin:10px 0">You may not be a meerkat, friend...<br>With dugouts underground, <br>But there are tactics you can lend, <br>Defences all around...<br>Some extra locks, some smoke alarms<br>And some insurance, too...<br>They're bound to ease your sweaty palms! <br>So think like meerkats do! </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 'On Guard'. </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=367415" data-title="On Guard de Denis Martindale" data-description="It's no good sitting on the fence, Complaining life's too hard! For surely it would make more sense If you remained on guard! ? Like meerkats do, the whole day long, Regardless of the cost, Defiant 'gainst the giant throng, Refusing to be bo..."></div> </div> </div>

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