<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367601" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>That Time Already?</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">The lion is a busy beast<br>Until he feels fatigue...<br>When doziness has then increased<br>With sleepytime to seek...<br>It's then his heavy head weighs most<br>Upon his weary neck<br>And he no longer stares engrossed, <br>Like saying, 'What the heck? '</div><div style="margin:10px 0">So tiny teeny tired eyes<br>No longer look alert, <br>And he no longer looks as wise<br>Or like a racing cert...<br>For all at once he weighs a ton<br>And flops down to the ground<br>And pretty soon his day is done<br>And he is sleeping sound...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Do lions snore? I cannot say.<br>I've never got that close! <br>I'm not inclined to walk his way<br>And stir him from repose...<br>So I'll stay here and he'll stay there! <br>Yes, that seems fine to me! <br>But you can wake him, if you dare, <br>While I watch from that tree...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, April 2011.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'That Time Already? '. </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=367601" data-title="That Time Already? de Denis Martindale" data-description="The lion is a busy beast Until he feels fatigue... When doziness has then increased With sleepytime to seek... It's then his heavy head weighs most Upon his weary neck And he no longer stares engrossed, Like saying, 'What the heck? ' So tiny tee..."></div> </div> </div>

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