Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

I saw your image in a dream's retinue
where you excelled with love's gonfalon,
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It's strange that you do lay streched out next to me
where moments ago together we were just one,
where like a fountain that bubbles you keep saying things
where together we do fit into eternity,
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I wish to have met you in your youth and prime,
at a time when the things we do
are true as is reason to rhyme,
as now I see great qualities in you
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When the frost in a white sight around us everywhere does lie
you do love me while it seems, as the plants in the garden will die,

the setting sun has a soft glare
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(in answer to Nel Noordzij)

Next to me you lie so still deep in your sleep,
this impression in my memories I want to keep
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There is severe chilliness coming suddenly
when with rain winter does surprise you and me,

It's with you that shelter against every thing I find,
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Between us the words were few and far between
while we were in the act of love and its bliss
were tenderly you did again and again me kiss
while we changed from how we had been
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(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

Mere moments comes to fullness in the new day
where you do become part of the cycle of my life
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(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

Like a jumping star that flaming does fall
of which the power does flow out into space
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