<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398445" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Impundulu</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">When in summer<br>stormy clouds gather<br>and chains of blue-white thunder<br>comes flaming down, sneaks nearer and neared<br>Impundulu is flying, <br>souring high into the air<br>with its blazing eyes looking everywhere</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and something has disturbed its resting place, <br>in the giant tamboti tree<br>that roots in the cliffs, <br>into the very heart of the earth, <br>that branches into the clouds, <br>the place of the upper waters</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when the rain starts pouring<br>as if without end, the medicine man, <br>the witchdoctor, the Inyanga<br>puts secret herbs, magic spices<br>coming from the dark cliffs<br>in a cooking pot<br>that he applies to every doorpost<br>of the native village</div><div style="margin:10px 0">believing that it has the ability<br>to keep the bird of thunder away<br>while it's exploding voice is drawing closer, <br>small bolts frizzles, fire erupts where it gazes<br>and the power of its claws and beak<br>shatters even the hardest rocks</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and in the village huts the children<br>are scared to even breathe, <br>their mothers and fathers pray<br>to the Almighty God, <br>to Unkulunkulu, the Big-Big One<br>to keep the bird of thunder away.</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=398445" data-title="Impundulu de Gert Strydom" data-description="When in summer stormy clouds gather and chains of blue-white thunder comes flaming down, sneaks nearer and neared Impundulu is flying, souring high into the air with its blazing eyes looking everywhere and something has disturbed its resting pla..."></div> </div> </div>

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