<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397863" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Drought</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">Right through the veldt the grass are dried out yellow, <br>almost everything under the eye, <br>the sun burns trees and bushes, <br>whirlwinds blow red dust clouds high into the air</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and it looks as if every bush and tree is stripped of leaves, <br>the sky is blue and open with all clouds missing<br>on farms cattle, bucks and sheep are bellowing and bleating<br>and farmers come to a confession</div><div style="margin:10px 0">that all things comes from the hand of God, gather in towns<br>where they admit the dependence of man<br>where everything comes to a halt<br>and they pray to God for rain.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Even the most prominent people pray<br>while atheists sit in the bars<br>drinking tot after tot while moaning about the heat<br>and on the horizon lightning slams down white</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while it’s pressing hot clouds gather<br>before a enormous rainstorm erupts, <br>a thunderbolt falls on the porch of a bar<br>rain rattles on the zinc roof</div><div style="margin:10px 0">the thirsty red dust flies into the air with big drops falling, <br>are filled overnight with knee high green grass<br>and the animals that are feeding in the fields<br>go plumb to the markets.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</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=397863" data-title="Drought de Gert Strydom" data-description="Right through the veldt the grass are dried out yellow, almost everything under the eye, the sun burns trees and bushes, whirlwinds blow red dust clouds high into the air and it looks as if every bush and tree is stripped of leaves, the sky i..."></div> </div> </div>

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