<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=399911" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Thundering On (Cavatina Sequence)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">(after Thom Gunn) </div><div style="margin:10px 0">A far off hum breaks the noon time silence, <br>rumbling thunder<br>of a manmade kind draws near, grazing cows <br>pause in wonder, <br>swallows, some in wheeling flight, <br>nesting under<br>a highway bridge swish about in some fear, <br>as some oncoming danger they do hear.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Men and women sit astride motorbikes, <br>with legs touching, <br>in almost a solemn intimate ritual, <br>everything, <br>even their black helmets, leather jackets, <br>is vibrating<br>to the essence of acceleration <br>of being in powerful forward motion.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With each other they are most intimate<br>and personal<br>as in unison they drive, they throttle on; <br>impersonal<br>beyond black visors, jackets, pants and boots; <br>emotional<br>they act, are a sheer force riding robust, <br>their uniforms are covered with dust.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">There is some great joy, a sense of freedom; <br>the wind and sun<br>are tugging at the very centre soul, <br>with unknown fun<br>as they past in perfect control of speed; <br>as they are one, <br>with nature in a sudden kind of bliss<br>that some view as being utter reckless</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Man, woman on roaring machines against<br>gravitation<br>becomes something more than mere human<br>intimation, <br>they are together travelling to their<br>destination, <br>next to the road the cows graze at the fence, <br>the swallows chirp after the inference.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">[Reference: 'On the Move' by Thom Gunn.]</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=399911" data-title="Thundering On (Cavatina Sequence) de Gert Strydom" data-description="(after Thom Gunn) A far off hum breaks the noon time silence, rumbling thunder of a manmade kind draws near, grazing cows pause in wonder, swallows, some in wheeling flight, nesting under a highway bridge swish about in some fear, as some o..."></div> </div> </div>

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