Gert Strydom Poems

(after Toon van den Heever)

In the summer sun the great colossus rises
where paltry yet gigantic he still stands
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When I heard the learned professor
lecturing in mathematics,
talking about parabolas,
about calculating some interesting things
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When I read in a great poem
that humanity lies beyond
the borders of life and culture
I saw the poet hope
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I thought that words
would draw you closer to me,
but words set us apart literary
in the real sense
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He knows the precise wandering of stars,
of every planet in the universe,
have power and the insight to create
things from the nothingness
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When you did come
the world had changed
and what was our home
with time was rearranged
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When your eyes glow like two suns
that shines above the dome of the sky,
that does penetrate me
with every glance from you
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When the lightning bolts of life
with blue-white sparks does flashing resound around me
then you are the silence that goes to my inner core
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Joshua, the man that helps me with my garden
says that my garden this morning
is jumping around with joy
and is dancing around with beauty
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There is a kind of light in my darling’s eyes,
a kind of deeper thing
that pierces everything in me
as if a bond between us
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