Gert Strydom Poems

Daily I am astounded with the beauty of nature
where the spring rain now pours down constantly,
where I do realise that there are beautiful things in the universe,
not only things that do come to death and trouble,
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(for Annelize)

Last it cannot,
the way that she does look at me
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(in answer to D. J. Opperman)

There is no root or anything out of a dove
that does find roots in the human soul
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(in answer to D. J. Opperman)

Past blocks of apartments where black whores do peer into the night
the rapid transit train did shake on its iron tracks
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(for Annelize, after D. J. Opperman)

Defenceless I do light a fire again
between me and you and I on the other side of the world
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(after M. M. Walters)

When utterly lovely Eve did come out of the river
her soft skin did gleam,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

When in grief they found comfort in each other,
like leaves blown in a wild wind
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When the paradise was lost
Eve with her very short skirt walked
right up to where the angels were standing
and held herself clumsy,
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(for Annelize)

I am the wanderer of a man and you are the spring goddess
with your laughter and eyes in a summer sunny-ardour
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(after Sheila Cussons)

Tower-buildings in America lie in pain in a television news report
Arabs, Moslem terrorists are responsible according to a rumour
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