Gert Strydom Poems

Your soft lips on my cheek
is melting into each beautiful gaze,
causing time to hang in moments.
Your soft lips on my cheek
...

With time your voice grew faint
as if it wants to disappear forever
and sometimes you still appear in dreams
as if you are only daring it at night
...

Now your silence is always part of me,
where you lie naked on the examination table
before they slice you open after your death
...

While night animals were frolicking around outside
you came to lie against me,
with stars shining brightly in the dark sky
...

(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

Under the shower her man is soaking wet
where she wraps her arms around him
...

From birth I have been planted
in this country
and nowhere else
does lure me away from here,
...

Today people are not interested
in a creator God
and an angel that does protect with a flaming sword
while they are tied to the depths of evolution.
...

When I look at the unsettling things
of the old year
I do wonder how the New Year is going to look
and what kind of things it is going to bring?
...

At night when the darkness folds around me
and I do hold you tightly
I hear a swarm of mosquitoes flying away
and in dreams I do meet you again.
...

African coots fly up black in the marsh
and long-tailed widow birds hang
somewhat tempting as if I can catch them
and I am startled as plovers do bombard me
...