Gert Strydom Poems

Life is a gift, a chance to exist
and some people have been great
while others will be greater still
and we do shape our life as best we can
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Your beauty astonishes me constantly
when humility
does surround my whole life, shadows do fall,
with nobleness
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When the early the morning does begin
and you arise
my lady, the first doves do happy sing,
while the dew lies
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There had been a kind of loneliness, a brokenness,
deep in your eyes,
a searching for greater meaning
and deeply moved
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At this place I have been before
where life like a smashing breaking wave just thunders on
and I do not remember anymore
as all those old memories are now gone
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Come to me in the brightness of a day
or in the darkness of the night
and then let be whatever may
even if it seems wrong or right.
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(after Christina Georgina Rossetti written for the 3rd of April)

My heart feels like the morning breeze
that whispers through the flowering jacaranda trees.
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(After Koos du Plessis)

Let me find a place of rest on this rough earth
that lies near to Your heart, as my best deeds do remain stained
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