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"African Spirit,"


Master's handiwork


Looking at the sky
Shifting and changing
Like a restless sea.
The brightness of the day
Darkened by stormy clouds.

The billowing thunder
Like a mighty herald signaling the cue
For the rain to fall
On this thirsty land.

The force of nature
Raging in the skies
Lit up for brief moments
By the brilliance of lightning.

All through the night
The rain will fall,
The percussion sounds, cymbal's and all
To the beat of the conductor
Till morning comes crisp'n clear.

No musician, painter or poet
Could truly capture
This wondrous demonstration.
An unfathomable phenomenon
Audible and visible
Awesome and immeasurable
-- the Master's handiwork




Graphically intense version button © 1998 Tendai Dawanyi, all rights reserved
 appears here by permission



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Author Notes

           I have always marveled at the build up of rain clouds in the skies. It's a strange phenomenon to experience the build up in heat and humidity followed by rising winds that usher in cooling temperatures and ominous dark clouds. Ever since I was a kid I have enjoyed watching nature battling it out, as it were, in the skies. And no matter how sophisticated or resourceful man becomes, when nature wants to make a point, we all stop from our busy schedules and pay attention.

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