Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

yet also powerful and impetuous
but the surrender to each other was overwhelming
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(in answer to C. M. van der Heever)

In ancient times a woman told a story at a fire,
a fantasy tale in the midnight hour
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(after C. M. van der Heever)

Were the scolding of the vultures resound
high above the ground
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(for Annelize)

I did know that it could be the place
where the past we both could forever erase,
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(after C. M. van der Heever)

It's twelve o'clock and the sun hangs high in the sky
the reflection does catch the eye,
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

At the marsh there is a beating of wings something profound
where I find many birds swarming around
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(for Annelize)

You I do hold me with blinded blissful rapture
where I do go through sunny day after sunny day
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In the night the fire of the stars I did behold
where they guard as the beacons of God from times of old
did wonder how God do Pleiades bind
and do again the unbinding of the seven stars find
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

Soft falls the rays of an amber streetlight
and above me is the whole starry night
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(for Annelize)

In the doves that flutter down around me tranquillity I do see
and sometimes I want to be like the Hadedah ibises that are free,
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