Gert Strydom Poems

(after Elma Mitchell)

Women do remind me of angels without wings
that can do many different things,
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(for Annelize, after Ingrid Jonker)

Your love is real to me although my heart is wounded
like coffee and rusks when the red day does come,
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(after Ruth Pitter, in answer to Mathews Phosa)

White rule in my country did fall and jobs for white men are no more
while everything has changed from what it was before
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(for Annelize)

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(after Ingrid Jonker)

A long summer and golden sun memories
that was filled with love I do know of
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(for Annelize, in answer to Ingrid Jonker)

In the mirror image, the reflection, of glass
of my memories I do look back at many hours,
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When the turbines at Impala platinum
sing right through the night at a high tone,
at the goldmine it sounds as if a monster
or hellish lifts do groan under something,
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In the darkness of the Springs central business district
where taxi-drivers do curse on each other
and do forthright shoot at the Brakpan busses,
where they do try and kill black foreigners
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(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)

You were to me more than the light in your eyes,
you did give me hope in my inability.
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(after Uys Krige)

Here is some red-roman, barracouta and codfish.
Your wife will love it when the fish is soft
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