Daleen Enslinstrydom Poems

You have got an old world charm
like Clarke Gable
and have got a beautiful voice like Frank Sinatra.
You have got the walk of John Travolta
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A person’s whole being
can be captured in a name.
Without even knowing
your whole personality
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Where have all the roses gone
that you had given frequently
when giving gifts came so naturally?
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Dad, you worked very hard
first on the farm
and later you had to go to the mines.
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when the mourning breaks
through the vale of the night?

Shall I wake you up and call you darling
while in your arms I am laying,,
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People say that love
is but a simple thing
but to me it’s the yearning of the heart
that needs fulfilment
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Soon and much too soon the winter came
with all its coldness and with it,
it took all the warmth of summer
and it broke through all the temperatures
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Our country is broken
without hands that can really heal it.
In the past fifty years
I have seen a lot of things change
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Like the waves memories
of you roll back to me.

I have written your name
on the sands of my mind
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After the rain flying like Icarus to the sun
the tauraco competes with the splendour of the rainbow
and so seldom one is seen
as they live in the canopy of the Knysna forest.
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