Gert Strydom Poems

Like an angel's bright glimmering light
in thoughts you appear to me with a glow,
as the woman that I do deeply know,
fair and sweet you come into my sight:
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I wish you would tell those things
of which the heart and soul alone knows.
I would have our lives much different
but the beautiful things I cannot forget.
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(after Edith Nesbit)

After the first decent shower of rain
the roses flower red, yellow and white
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(in answer to H.A. Fagan)

Orange and brown the leaves fall in the autumn
when stripped trees stand like skeletons,
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(in answer to N.P. Van Wyk Louw)

Our love came to perfection,
between twelve o'clock and half past one,
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(after Lina Spies)

My Lord, You made Eve for Adam,
did touch them with Your image and the breath of life.
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(in answer to Louis Esterhuizen)

This morning my VW Polo drives down the N1,
the road snake-stripe through the High-Veldt,
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My dark-head princess in Lowenstein,
tonight it's the same moon that shines above us,
from the storeys of your palace
you can see the horizon disappearing behind the sea.
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I listen to and watch a young man
on a scouting reconnaissance mission
on the frontline in the Ukraine,
where they are only two soldiers
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(after Piet van Rooyen)

My doll, my loveliest thing,
I cannot get my messages to you without electricity,
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