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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399341" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sonnets of the stone ruins</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Long ago a mighty hunter<br>sailed on the river to look for medicine<br>and his canoe made from tree<br>was swept along with uprooted trees<br>by a river in flood.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He lost control over the boat<br>and in the distance<br>a thundering sound<br>hanged in the air<br>mighty smoke<br>rose ghostly out of the water<br>in a fine spray<br>and he could hear tons of water<br>flowing down a cataract.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">II</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the canoe was spinning round<br>and round<br>he tied a long thin strong thong<br>to a arrow<br>and with all the power in his strong arms<br>he draws the bow’s string and set his aim<br>on a massive tree<br>standing on the shore.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">The arrow caught speed<br>and hanged a moment in the grey air<br>before it hit the tree with great force<br>and the thong spanned stiff <br>and his arms with desperate power<br>overcame the river.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">III</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He passed the remains <br>of ancient mines<br>and villages declining<br>and overgrown by bushes<br>and suddenly there were rock walls and towers<br>and branches creeping<br>into the walls.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Cautiously he sneaked nearer<br>and shot a arrow through a spitting cobra<br>and suddenly a figure appeared behind a bush, <br>but before his rock could hit it<br>it disappeared into the nought<br>and against a niche another figure stared <br>deep into his thoughts</div><div style="margin:10px 0">IV</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>When he stormed with assegai in his hand<br>onto that figure<br>it disappeared around a corner<br>into a dark passageway<br>and all at once <br>there was an animal with glowing eyes<br>breathing heavily in the dark in front of him<br>and he lifted his shield against it<br>And took a firm grip on the back of the spear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With rotting breath and cruel anger<br>a lion leaped with stretched out claws<br>growling onto him, <br>but he was shield somewhat<br>While the assegai went deep past the animal’s ribs.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">V</div><div style="margin:10px 0">While the lion died in anger<br>the claws ripped deep into the hunter’s shoulder<br>and his sharp knife<br>slashed time after time<br>through the animal’s heart<br>and covered in blood<br>he came out<br>from under weight of the dead lion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In horror he saw<br>the lion changing slowly<br>from animal to human<br>with a spear through his ribs<br>and a lion skin<br>around his shoulders.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">VI</div><div style="margin:10px 0">He was still busy<br>dragging the lion skin from the killed man<br>and felt the soft fur<br>in his hands, <br>when to more lions<br>in anger leaped on him.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It was too much for him<br>since both knife and spear<br>still wedged into the dead man<br>and with the fighting<br>he had lost<br>his bow and arrows<br>and he was cornered<br>by lions ripping from both sides.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br>VII</div><div style="margin:10px 0">	l’Envoi</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It is told <br>than when the air is open<br>and the moon takes long to rise<br>a mighty hunter appears<br>with the rain gods<br>where they bash their shields<br>and spears against each other<br>and that the air<br>is now his hunting ground</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You can see stripes of thunder<br>when his arrows with thongs<br>dropp down to earth, <br>before the new season’s<br>first raindrops fall.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: With thanks to “The ivory trail” by T.V. Bulpin that gave me the idea of this poem.]</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>
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Long ago a mighty hunter
sailed on the river to look for medicine
and his canoe made from tree
was swept along with uprooted trees
by a river in flood.

He lost control over the boat
and in the distance
a thundering sound
hanged in the air
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