Gert Strydom Poems

Hit Title Date Added
2091.
Now Even Sunny Days Are To Me Grey 1

In my life I know no other woman
who like in pure mathematics have everything suspended,
where you do stop our marriage
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2092.
To The End Of Time (Villanelle)

To the end of time I would love you if I may
where I cannot stop it to love you
and in this New Year I miss you on every day,
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2093.
Even In This You Are Precious To Me (Italian Sonnet)

This morning in the dim and cloudy twilight
while outside a dove does coo for its soul-mate,
do over the mere beauty of life elate,
nothing in my own life seems sunny and bright
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2094.
You Were For Me Past Pretty Where We Live In Springs

(after Gert Vlok Nel)

You were the woman that found me and brought me back again
and I did love you and were afraid to try again
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2095.
Where Alone On God I Do Still Trust And Rely

(in answer to Koos Kombuis)

At a time you were like my own shadow
that followed me just where I went,
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2096.
Far Too Terribly (Italian Sonnet) 1

Far too terribly I stiFar too terribly I still do you miss,
where it seems to you I do matter not.
No options for another I have got
where no marriage should be anything like this
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2097.
I Wonder How You Now Have Got No Feelings

I wonder how you now you are able to have no feelings,
where the impact of love still remains with me,
what are driving you to avoid me,
you do not have insight what the thousands of poems mean
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2098.
You Say You Did Not Plan Things Like This

You say you did not plan things like this
and at the end I am your throw-away husband,

where over a whole year you do reckon out your life
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2099.
Apocrypha: Psalm 80 (Refrein Stanza)

My Lord and God, Jahwé, Jesus, whatever man call you,
each human is rescued by You and not damned as You are true.
You created and people argue about Genesis and a big-bang.
You are eternal; the creator in whose hands life does hang.
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2100.
Grandma Baby (Elisabeth Filda Strydom)

Grandma, your dad was a Scotsman and a real gentleman,
your mother an Afrikaner in more than flesh and blood,
you taught me the principles of family,
believed that everyone should help each other,
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