by Jana Louise Smit

Created on: June 17, 2010

African Dawn.

Do you know an African Dawn?

Barbaric-beautiful-bloody,

The sun a ragged ball of fire,

hanging on the horizen

a wet sack

Blood red -with promise of death

or life.

Dew on the yellow grass

long, like diamonds.

Smells-sounds

Flapping-and snorting

Greeting the day.

Wildlife at the lush waterhole,

friends for a few minutes

slurping, assessing each other.

Lioness feeding her cubs,

Hunter waiting for the hunted to leave the night shelter,

while in a thorny tree birds in a row

discuss the day and stare over the empty plain.

I know an African dawn.

I know Africa.

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