Intense! Poem by Denis Martindale

There comes that hour leopards search,
When food weighs on their minds,
When every leopard feels that urge
Till promptly food he finds...
Unless, of course, luck hides away,
Like creatures often do,
For what would want to be the prey
When life's worth living, too?

And so, this leopard prowled around,
As softly as he could,
Perchance for something to be found
Within the neighbourhood...
With soft-laid steps, with intense thought,
While breezes carried scents,
Content if something could be caught,
No chance that he repents...

The age-old story played each scene,
The scenes he'd played before,
With no-one there to intervene,
Or even up the score...
That's why he feasted and lived on
And stole one life that time,
That precious life, forever gone,
That could have proved sublime...


Denis Martindale February 2017.


Based on the magnificent Stephen Gayford
wildlife painting on the bid.tv channel
during a Stephen Gayford Art Evening show.

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