<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=367815" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thirsty Travellers</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When zebras migrate plain to plain<br>They brave the hunters, too, <br>These travellers have much to gain<br>As each one sees it through...<br>Consider running to and fro, <br>Attacked on either side, <br>Then panicked, wondering where to go, <br>When there's no place to hide...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Such are the burdens each must face<br>The whole day long, no doubt, <br>In seeking some great resting place, <br>Like that's what life's about...<br>Survivors left to tell the tales<br>Of how, somehow, they lived, <br>Despite the fact another fails<br>And loses life's sweet gift...</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Thirsty travellers find the shore, <br>To line up cautiously, <br>To face the crocodiles and more<br>Takes utmost bravery...<br>Each baptised zebra takes his chance, <br>With courage rarely known...<br>In hopes, somehow, the odds enhance<br>When none there swims alone...</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>Denis Martindale, copyright, December 2012.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>The poem is based on the magnificent painting <br>by Stephen Gayford called 'Thirsty Travellers'. </div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>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=367815" data-title="Thirsty Travellers de Denis Martindale" data-description="When zebras migrate plain to plain They brave the hunters, too, These travellers have much to gain As each one sees it through... Consider running to and fro, Attacked on either side, Then panicked, wondering where to go, When there's no place..."></div> </div> </div>

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