Gert Strydom Poems

There’s a light breeze blowing
and the waves
have white horses,
where they splash on the beach.
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I had a baby grey Lory
that the dogs tried to catch
and treated it as a pet.
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Darling, sing one of your songs
when we are together
and the candles burn romantic for a time
and play on the chords of your blue guitar
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In Heidelberg we stayed in a white house
against the ranges
and there were always
sweet yellow corn that Mom had planted
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I knew Shell-shocked troops,
who were battle hardened
and who struggled between
the sense and senselessness of killing.
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How can I have comprehension
of how deep your love lies,
when you fold your hands over me
and pray that my life
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One day I travelled with uncle Sias
and we were on our way to the bushveld
and his expensive German car was loaded,
but just on the other side of Warmbaths
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Johnny surfed on the waves,
till on the day,
that he got his call up papers.
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I placed a coin
upon a railway track
while training at Klipdrift army camp
to go to war.
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One day in jail
and the next
on the throne,
and unlike Joseph,
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