SERENGETI CHEETAH

The Serengeti cheetah grinned,
A sour puss no more,
As he laid 'mid the evening wind,
The sun long since a chore...
His tail no longer swished around
To signal his dismay,
It gently rested on cool ground,
Determined there to stay...

For soon the moon would circle high,
Its vigil to repeat,
Replacing sunlight in the sky,
As if it must compete...
A restfulness had thus appeared,
Before the twilight's touch
And as it ever closer steered,
He liked it very much...

Gone was the bright light hurting eyes,
Gone was the heat so strong,
Gone was the dust-filled air that dries,
Gone was the day... so long!
Now was the time, the in-between,
The magic hour blessed,
Suffice to say he wasn't keen
To live through all the rest...


Denis Martindale, copyright, September 2014.


Poem about a magnificent wildlife painting,
Serengeti Evening by Stephen Gayford...

nb Google search: gayfordgallery

Find more wildlife poems using Google search
for the search phrase Stephen Gayford poetry.

https://www.google.co.uk/#q=Stephen+Gayford+poetry

Poem shared here:

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http://denis-martindale.blogspot.com/2014/09/serengeti-cheetah.html

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

My Stephen Gayford tribute poems are here:

http://poemhunter.com/poem/stephen-gayford/
http://poemhunter.com/poem/the-prince-of-prints-2/
http://poemhunter.com/poem/a-brush-with-genius/
http://poemhunter.com/poem/gayford-gallery/

The Stephen Gayford Gallery website is here:

http://www.gayfordgallery.com

It was being updated in September 2014!

http://gayfordgallery.com/the-artist/

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

Click-a-pic!

http://gayfordgallery.com/original-paintings/

http://gayfordgallery.com/originalwatercolours/

http://gayfordgallery.com/originalpencildrawings/

http://gayfordgallery.com/signedlimitededitionartistproofs/

There's also a Guest Book!

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

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The Stephen Gayford poems can be viewed here:

poemhunter.com links:

http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems or
http://tinyurl.com/gayfordpoems2
(that's for the A to Z title listings)

blog website links:

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

Framed pictures can be bought from UK websites,
NB use zoom-in feature when viewing pictures.

http://search.ebay.co.uk/stephen-gayford
http://www.amazon.co.uk
http://www.preloved.co.uk
https://www.google.co.uk/#q=Stephen+Gayford

http://www.baato.co.uk/stephen%20gayford
(Various website sales of Stephen Gayford prints.)


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