<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=397906" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Encounter with a Rinkhals</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was lying on the ground <br>turned on its back<br>with its black-brown<br>body shining and mouth agape<br>and looked like dead<br>and I could see<br>yellow-white bands ringing<br>the top of its torso.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Still something in that lifeless<br>ring necked spitting cobra<br>scared the living daylight <br>out of me<br>and like a lightning bolt<br>the death-shamming snake<br>shot upright spreading its hood<br>and hissing loudly.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Luck was on my side<br>when that evil reptile<br>spat at my eyes<br>and its venimous spray <br>splattered my glasses.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">One moment it looked dead<br>and the next<br>it was viciously alive <br>and struck out at me, <br>but missed me by a mile.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>[Reference: “The Rinkhals also called the Ringhals or Ring-necked Spitting Cobra (Hemachatus haemachatus) is a venomous elapid found in parts of southern Africa. It is one of a group of cobras that has developed the ability to spit venom as a defence mechanism.” Wikipedia.]</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=397906" data-title="Encounter with a Rinkhals de Gert Strydom" data-description="It was lying on the ground turned on its back with its black-brown body shining and mouth agape and looked like dead and I could see yellow-white bands ringing the top of its torso. Still something in that lifeless ring necked spitting cobra sca..."></div> </div> </div>

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