Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize, after A. G. Visser)

Your lips do entice and gleam and glow
severally enchanted I am,
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To find the innocent Child
the soldiers of Herod do perform infanticide
are blinded by the orders of a king
and for no child there is a safe haven
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(after A. G. Visser)

everyone in our country is happy for a day or two,
a blissful friendliness and goodwill does reign,
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(In answer to D. J. Opperman)

At the agriculture co-operation's shop the farmers did believe the angel
where on the high-veldt they were farming near to each other,
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It's strange how people around Christmas
and New Year does long for company,
long for the star of God to hang over them,
do again dust of the Bible and read the ancient story
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(in answer to André Letoit)

I did wonder how a white Christmas
with candles, trees and icy chilliness would be,
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I see your face reflected
in the window of the car
where it's raining and we are driving for hours
and big-eyed you look while the rain do splash down,
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Like every year the birthday of Jesus is being sold out,
people die celebrate Christmas and for the New Year they do have hope
but in all of this some are lonely and poor
while other people go from sale to sale,
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The children are overwhelmed with happiness
as the sled of Father Christmas has landed,
some do press into the queue
at Pick n Pay and shake him by the hand,
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(for Annelize)

In 1985 it was whole year summer
when you came into my life
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