Gert Strydom Poems

Hit Title Date Added
991.
That It’s Dangerous

That it’s dangerous
to travel alone
lots of people have told me
and I have also
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992.
You Are (Free Verse Sonnet)(2)

You are my spring-bride when the cherries do flower
where curls run down your neck,
you are the one that leave me breathless and that do bring me to a halt,
the one who leaves me speechless in any other season,
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993.
You Are (Free Verse Sonnet)(3)

You are my spring-bride when the cherries do flower
where curls run down your neck,
you are the one that leave me breathless and that do bring me to a halt,
the one who leaves me speechless in any other season,
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994.
Where Stars (Rubiyat Sonnet)

Where stars are in the tree of the night
they do glow in the dark blue-white
when like a cat the moon sneaks higher up
before the red-day brings its bright light
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995.
On The High Wire

I think no other person has a life just like this,
where continually I find myself on the high wire,
try to map the lifeline and every step could take me down
into the depths of the abyss
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996.
A Person Can Believe (Free Verse Sonnet)

(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

A person can believe whatever you want to in a world full of darkness
and miss the Bible's principles of God,
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997.
In My Short Life I Have Seen

(in answer to R. K. Belcher)

In my short life I have seen that professors of religion
and clergymen do not hold the Bible holy,
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998.
I Wish You Could See The Cosmos (Refrain Stanza)

I wish you could see the cosmos in the veldt in the green
where they do flower in a pink, purple and white sheen
wildly do cover the grassy sidewalks in their abundance
do in the strong breeze everywhere in the sun dance
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999.
It Had Been At The Time (Refrain Stanza)

It had been at the time of the equinox
as you watched a butterfly on the snowy-white phlox
while bunches of roses I did pick like in my younger days
you were jubilant and lovely in the sun's rays
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1000.

Where do people believe that this world does decay,
that all kinds of disasters do abound on this planet
they do loose sight of God in the universe,
while you and I in this time realise the depth of our love,
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