<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367460" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Proud Mother</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Within this world of wondrous things, <br>Snow leopards learn to live...<br>From gentle cubs, as underlings, <br>To parents, life to give.<br>To each his own, that's how it goes, <br>The male and female breed, <br>Such that new life within her grows, <br>Until they, too, are freed...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Then all at once those cubs must learn<br>What life is all about, <br>And thus, in time, respect to earn, <br>No longer rules to flout...<br>They choose to serve within a team, <br>Survival to ensure, <br>No matter if through acts extreme<br>That shake us to the core...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Their mother is their constant guide<br>And yet their closest friend.<br>That's why she looks on them with pride<br>Until the bitter end...<br>For she's known love and she's known death<br>And yearns to stay alive...<br>Until she breathes her final breath, <br>She'll help them to survive...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, January 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Proud Mother'. </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=367460" data-title="Proud Mother de Denis Martindale" data-description="Within this world of wondrous things, Snow leopards learn to live... From gentle cubs, as underlings, To parents, life to give. To each his own, that's how it goes, The male and female breed, Such that new life within her grows, Until they, t..."></div> </div> </div>

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