Gert Strydom Poems

(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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(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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(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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(for Annelize)

Like a pomegranate the spring does burst open
with flowers like the red pits that are white
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(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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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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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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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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(for Annelize)

You are the beautiful one
with the valleys in your sunny eyes
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(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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