LEAVING THE NEST!

The kingfisher first looked around,
Before leaving the nest,
To see the sights that could be found,
To his north, south, east, west...
And high above and down below,
To learn what must be done,
For soon he'd leave, be on the go,
To fly beneath the sun...

And thus aware of all there was,
He ventured all in flight,
With me enthralled and all because
Here was a wondrous sight...
His bold blue wings transformed the scene
That Nature had prepared,
Amid each grey and brown and green,
What sight could be compared?

To me, here was a miracle,
A festival and more,
A precious sudden spectacle
That thrilled me to the core!
Like Superman across the sky!
Like Spider-Man as well!
I smiled and then I heaved a sigh...
So jealous, can't you tell?


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Leaving The Nest'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


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The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24

SPECIAL PAIR

With two white tigers on patrol,
Their land was safe indeed
And so today was like a stroll
Where sunshine hours might lead...
A time to let their tails swish free,
Less tense than times before,
As if they felt with certainty
That each one knew the score...

A special pair to some of us,
If we esteem their kind
And count such beauty as a plus
When tigers come to mind...
Yet there are those that give no thought
To creatures such as these,
Regarding wildlife as a sport,
They do just as they please...

How long white tigers still remain
Is anybody's guess,
The greater good may yet restrain
To grant some happiness...
Man ought to pray white tigers lived
Than hurt a single one,
So each of these can be God's gift
Beneath a golden sun...


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Special Pair'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


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The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24

SNUGGLE UP!

The lioness was with her cub,
The apple of her eye!
She told the cub to snuggle up,
Not just to stay close by...
For there are times, life takes its toll
And times meant just for this,
A chance to pause, not take a stroll,
But simply one of bliss...

The comfort zone, where hearts entwine,
Where both minds think alike,
When I am yours and you are mine,
The world can take a hike...
The two of us and nothing more,
Amid a gentle breeze
That whispers, 'This is what life's for,
So, rest now, take your ease...'

That tiny cub learns day-by-day
That life is all it owns,
Beyond the times it wants to play,
Or grumble moans and groans...
There's in-between, there's tenderness,
There's silence in the sun,
There's prime time we call happiness,
When nothing much gets done!


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Snuggle Up'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


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The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24

STEPHEN GAYFORD hi-res images

I visit the http://www.bid.tv website and
I visit the http://www.price-drop.tv website.

The search option leads to help find gayford.

http://www.bid.tv/SearchPage.aspx?Search=gayford&Cat=0

http://www.price-drop.tv/SearchPage.aspx?Search=gayford&Cat=0

Each wildlife print on sale has its own webpage, yet
sometimes the images may not be seen, yet if I put
the cursor onto the image area and press right-click
on the mouse, then I can see SHOW PICTURE...
That helps to reload the image, just in case.

The image that shows has a structured URL we can
access. Right-click and choose COPY image URL.
Now open a new web browser window display and
paste that URL into the search box. Now we see
that image is much larger than the tiny first image
on the auction's webpage. Here is a recent example:

2 Pandas: Chewing It Over: Tiny image URL is

http://media.sit-up.tv/productimages/100/p.HO151660.th.aa.jpg

Medium size is

http://media.sit-up.tv/productimages/500/p.HO151660.mp.aa.jpg

Hi-Res size is

http://media.sit-up.tv/productimages/2000/p.HO151660.hr.aa.jpg

The images include an extra white background area, yet
an image cropped to remove this area gets a smaller
frame print image instead for a full screen display.

Of course, the display will be affected by the landscape
or the portrait picture size, yet using that HR size image
as the basis for a full-screen style display, it's possible to
create a full-screen 100% width and 100% height webpage
so the image fits into that area on-screen, for a PC or a
TV screen if Internet devices allow this view. To save each
of these images, right-click and choose Save Picture As...
That helps if changing to its correct title and info...

Those with the zoom in/zoom out web browser options
may be able to adjust from 100% down to whatever fits
the screen height best. That merely displays about the
same as the medium size portrait style would eg 20%
of the HI-RES height since there's a white space above
the image display if it's not displayed on its own separate
webpage with settings like topmargin="0" with the
bottommargin="0 + leftmargin="0" + rightmargin="0"
as well. Just like the example Gallery images below...

While we don't have copyright permission, to host the
images ourselves, we can at least learn more and how
to display them. I use this idea for fullscreen slideshows.

http://jennifersjpgs.shows.it and a few tigers are here:

http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie.html

From that Gallery webpage, the image webpages are:

http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw01.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw02.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw03.html

http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw04.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw05.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw06.html


http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw07.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw08.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw09.html

http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw10.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw11.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw12.html


http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw13.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw14.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw15.html

http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw16.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw17.html
http://www.fantasyart.ukartists.com/jeffrey-wilkie/jw18.html


Click the first jw01 webpage thumbnail to see the first image
and continue to click along the slideshow, as explained there...

Shopping Telly images continued...

The images are only available temporarily as bid tv and
price-drop tv replaces these with new Stephen Gayfords.

However, we can go to a website's webpage and choose
Save As a complete webpage and that's accepted OK...
We may even need to have an original image as proof
of any damage to a delivered bought item. So it makes
sense to have the large HI-RES image saved, doesn't it?


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24

RIVERSIDE SIESTA

The tiger knew the sun was hot,
So to the stream he went,
Because he liked the stream a lot,
Thought it was Heaven-sent...
The trick was just to be alone,
No other tigers there,
As if the stream was his to own,
For tigers hate to share!

And luck was on his side that day,
No others to be seen,
Now was the time lone tigers play,
When none can intervene...
He splashed and splashed and splashed and splashed,
He swam from shore-to-shore,
He picked up speed and quickly dashed,
All pleasures to explore!

And satisfied that all was well,
Began to glide along,
As if now time to rest a spell,
Like nothing could go wrong...
The stream obliged his every need,
The lucky so-and-so,
For he felt blessed, yes, blessed indeed,
Born free to come and go...


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Riverside Siesta'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


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The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24

PEACEABLE KINGDOM

When four bear cubs were granted space
To stroll along one day,
There was no sudden sad disgrace
Because they chose to play...
Thus side-by-side without a brawl,
Just like four musketeers,
With all-for-one and one-for-all
They each shared smiles not fears...

Of course, they'd bonded like bears do,
Each knew there was no harm,
They faced that morning rendezvous
With no trace of alarm...
Thus peace was reigning, kingdom-wise,
With gentle harmony
And surely that's the greatest prize
That's ever meant to be...

If only humans chose this path,
Aspired to its aims,
There'd be more reasons still to laugh,
Less reasons to call names...
Yet love takes time in every heart
To blossom like the rose,
Before its blessings can impart
And lifelong friendship grows...


Denis Martindale, copyright, October 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Peaceable Kingdom'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


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The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24

MR & MRS

The lion and his lioness
Had blessed each other's hearts,
So harmony brought happiness
For that's what it imparts...
When understanding takes control
And partnership holds sway,
There's wholesome gladness in each soul
That hopes it stays that way...

Some call it work to co-exist,
It just needs memories,
For from the past they still persist,
Reminding what can please...
So arguments stay in the past,
Contentions thus to fade,
All that remains are things that last,
Now pleasantly displayed...

That's how a couple's meant to be,
Entwined by thoughts of love,
Beyond the hopes and dreams that we
At first would think enough...
Because they seek their share of bliss,
Instead of finding blame,
How blessed indeed, this couple is,
Deserving of acclaim...


Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2013.


The poem is based on the magnificent painting
by Stephen Gayford called 'Mr & Mrs'.


More Stephen Gayford poems here:
denis-martindale-dot-blogspot-dot-com

My Poetry website: http://poem.says.it


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The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

Youtube video: http://tinyurl.com/gayfordgallery-dot-com-video


Update: My poem, 'An Ode To Stephen Gayford'
is featured in the website's News Section!

http://www.gayfordgallery.com/news.htm

There's also a Guest Book!

http://users2.smartgb.com/g/g.php?a=s&i=g25-52612-21

The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2

blog website links:

http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com
http://tinyurl.com/stephen-gayford-poetry

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites:

http://www.bid.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.price-drop.tv (on UK Freeview)
http://www.pokemoncraftstore.com/index.php?cPath=24