Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

I do now live on
with the silent memory
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(for Annelize)

Maybe love is something supernatural
that at a time does sneak up and jump upon you,
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(for Annelize)

There are now decades and many years into
on our faces, our bodies and our hair
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(for Annelize)

Time after time you do sneak barefoot to my heart
and when I find myself you are already there
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(in answer to Thérése Bartman)

The Boer's extensive
and masterly-planned guerrilla warfare
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Fluttering in a strong breeze, the Union Jack,
rising on ridge after rock ridge.
They saw Boers, as peasants that eat porridge,
while British soldiers came under attack,
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(After A.G. Visser)

From out of the naught
a Boer commando comes riding,
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(for Annelize)

At twilight when the day begins
in into the cobalt endlessness
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(for Annelize)

Like every other morning
the yellow speckled barbet,
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(for Annelize)

When a pretty girl does suddenly cheerfully laugh
do throw her hair back and pass me,
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