Hunting lion by busi2ness
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Description
Animals:
It's labor
Especially the more dangerous ones.
Tailing
Following
Stopping and getting ready
Animals taking off
Stalking again
Sweat runs
Flies and midges challenge
Stay calm and collected
Stinging nettles
Eyes stinging from perspiration
Crouching on all fours
Looking up
Neck muscles hurting
Thorns and rocks under your knee
A branch hurting your face
Blood-sucking fly
Sitting on your back
And the burning sensation to swat
In a place you cannot reach
Camera ploughing in the dust and sand
Scratching against a rock
Dust covering the lens
And accidentally
You touch the lens
With your dirty hands
The moment of truth
Guide close behind you
Nerves tensed
Eyes meeting
Conferring
Agreeing
Warning
Whispering
Disagreement:
You want comfort to get closer
"NO"
Is dusted in the space
Between you and the armed guide
"It's too close
The lioness has young
She is very aggressive"
Carries across more in lip reading
Than sound
Adrenalin blinds the periphery
Blood pumping
Noise rushing in your ears
You take aim
Limit your vision through a narrow lens
As if putting all your faith in God or man
The zoom exaggerates her proximity
The lioness growls
You see a snarl
Eyes flashing hatred
Camera clicks
A heavy armor plate on your chest
Keeps you breathing
Pumping tight against the inside of your ribs
"Gotcha"
Echoes in your mind
And you feel the slight tremble in your muscles
Exhaustion
Engulfs your immediate awareness
You start to crawl backward
For the first time
You wonder if you soiled your pants ...
Note: Thanks to Tara who helped me groom this.
I hope you enjoy sharing the excitement of the "hunt".
Comments (55)
Oh Piet - i cannot believe this - a man of many, many talents!!!! Fantastic writing... you had me on the edge of my seat.. I smell the dust and feel the flies... the sweat burning... Wow - incredible! :)
wonderful lion!!!!
Stunning capture and Poem Oom Piet.
I don't love hunting, but your words were amazing... especially the final phrase! ;)
You already know everything I think about this poem ... absolutely fabulous writing! :) Intense, exciting, thrilling, riveting ... spectacular work!
Fantastic words! I do not like hunting but I like your poem!
Fanstastic photo
OK, Piet. This is very, very good. Tara steared you right. I know I've heard you mention lions before and wondered what getting into and out of their space would feel like. Now, you've given me an adrenaline pumping opportunity to see and feel for myself. And, then you've given me a chance to relax along with you and laugh at the end as you consider what involuntary event may have happened to you enroute. A-1 my friend.
stunning words!!!
Excellent capture and words, Piet!!!
Cool shot here Piet and love the info to go along with it :)
Wonderful shot and awesome poem , loved it!
excellent image piat well done
Piet, better than Wilbur Smith's lengthy descriptions of the hunt.
Excellent!
Wonderful story and scene. Excellent work.
But in the end you know it was all worth it. It's not just the image capture, but the adventure that went with it. Great description.
Wonderful poem and capture Piet! :)
I know I would Piet, excellent story and photo.
great shot and excellent info piet...
Piet, you're back! It's been so long since you posted anything that I thought you were a myth! That's quite a perilous, breath-taking, and bone-chilling narrative you've presented us with here. Really great prose and a neat shot of the uptight lioness.
Excellent work Piet! Keeps you on the edge of your seat, really feels like you are there! Bravo!
Excellent story and image!!!
wonderful looking and cool story too
Is there anything you can't do, Piet? You drink in a tree trunk pub, roam the bush to capture Africa's natural glories, and now write the perfect description of stalking that marvelous lion for the camera shot of a lifetime!
Super discriptive writing. I felt I came on this stalking trip with you.
Reading your poetry is like being there .. it's so vivid that I can feel, smell, hear, and sense the hunt. The tension is so thick it could be cut with a knife! The shot of the lioness is awesome, will it be posted full size?
Wow, Piet, you've taken us along for this most amazing journey, shared it, and allowed us to know what it's like---THANK YOU!!!
Ah Piet but who was hunting who. If you hadn't put in the bits about cameras it could have gone either way so I know you where the hunter
Exciting work!