Gert Strydom Poems

You are my angel of the morning light,
the one who turns my upside down world bright,
you are the only one to whom I yearn
during the darkness of the night.
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Late in the afternoon over the sea
the day poured out the last out of its wineglass,
the bay, the wave is coloured red
when on the beach you do kiss me.
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Butterflies you could find
as a very small girl,
could run just like the wind,
did hold on your dad's hand,
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In the distance he see them coming,
war chariots filling the horizon
and the rumbling of horse hooves
are getting louder
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Take my words to above
to a place of ineffable greatness
and let me behold in prayer
the unnameable God
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There are things that you cannot avoid
like the call-up instruction which cruelly
brings you to another world and measure you out
for whom you must become and be and stay
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Like a goddess you appear
with strings of falling auburn hair,
the sun sparkling in your golden eyes,
a joyful smile upon your lips,
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You are very pretty
and the sun rising over the horizon
loves you,
while his red rays folds open.
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With big brown eyes
she watches him
where he is sitting
right opposite her
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The violent dispossession of farms
in Zimbabwe
is seen by some people as lawlessness (1)
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