<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399844" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>There Were Late Afternoons As A Child</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were late afternoons when as a child<br>I would see the tall popular trees<br>making the pale blue sky seem much higher<br>where they grew next to the old farm dam</div><div style="margin:10px 0">with there branches whispering <br>in the early night breeze, <br>with doves and finches calling <br>from their nests in the shelter of these trees, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when an early moon would appear<br>and the evening star would suddenly start twinkling<br>blue-white in its sheer brightness against a darker blue sky, <br>like a mother goose leading all of the other stars.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There were early evenings when the sun<br>died with its deep red glow touching<br>the hillocks that were covered in sugar bushes, <br>and red flowering aloes, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">when the scent of protea flowers was sweet on the air, <br>when blue changed to darker black, <br>when darkness came suddenly<br>and a myriad of stars sparkled all over the sky</div><div style="margin:10px 0">while in the distance fires came to life<br>at the rural mud huts, while jackals<br>and dogs started to howl at the bright yellow moon, <br>while I knew that mother would be home soon.</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=399844" data-title="There Were Late Afternoons As A Child de Gert Strydom" data-description="There were late afternoons when as a child I would see the tall popular trees making the pale blue sky seem much higher where they grew next to the old farm dam with there branches whispering in the early night breeze, with doves and finches ca..."></div> </div> </div>

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