Gert Strydom Poems

Hit Title Date Added
2091.
Ode To The Woman That I Do Love (Free Verse Sonnet)

(for Annelize)

More than severely I do relish you, my girl-woman,
with the words that I send I do want to hold on to you
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2092.
Ode To The Woman That I Do Love (Free Verse Sonnet)(1)

(for Annelize)

More than severely I do relish you, my girl-woman,
with the words that I send I do want to hold on to you
...

2093.
Come In The Spring (Ballade)

(for Annelize, after A. G. Visser)

Come in the spring when the days do stretch out
and see how the roses astound with their colours,
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2094.
The Years Of Life (Free Verse Sonnet)

(for Annelize)

Like a pomegranate the spring does burst open
with flowers like the red pits that are white
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2095.
The Spring Is Blossoming (Sonnet)

(for Annelize)

The spring is blossoming with a myriad of flowers,
daily the sky is filled with an ocean full of showers
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2096.
The Shrike

I am astonished with the shrike
where on the fence and a pole
it hangs its prey and a lizard and a small snake
and later to eat do land with slapping wings.
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2097.
The Two Sparrows (Free Verse Sonnet)

I see the two sparrows chirp and sing twittering
where they are eating the miniature Christmas cactus to pieces
as if they do know something of the leaves of it
when they do notice me like two naughty children do jump away,
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2098.
The Canary

Loud he is where he sings twittering
do jump up and down in the small cage
and he is caught with an orchestra in his throat
but to his music there is no restraint
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2099.
You Are The Lovely One

(for Annelize)

You are the beautiful one
with the valleys in your sunny eyes
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2100.
The Ballade Of Hloma Mabuto

(in answer to Theo Wassenaar)

Dingaan's big kraal Ngungunhlovu, was totally round
with thickets of bushes fencing it against the open ground
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