Gert Strydom Poems

I did come into this world
as if a cancer does slowly, slowly eat away the remembering
and about the memories of my childhood days
there are but few things
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what we do make of it
but then destiny does come along and changes everything
and sometimes we have to adjust immediately
to face the things that life does bring
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I am a possible friend but you do not know me
at the sight of me you do turn away.
I am the one that do smile at you today
while you do seem extremely happy.
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Near to the river in the early morning haze
while in the veldt the antelope did nearby graze
some wild bees did hum and some hornbills did scream
when I found the coral-tree with its bright red flowers ablaze
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Where it stands as an old giant on the plain
it's painted with the setting sun
or at twilight with the golden moon.
When the yellow-finch pecks at fruit on a branch
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(After T.S. Eliot)

I was looking at the ocean, looking again,
I saw seagulls swarm under in the bay,
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In the early morning light
where the light is hazy
the house in the street stand trembling
between jacarandas that flower purple
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How bright the colours
of the rainbow gleam today
as clouds flee from the sight.
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It's a cold, cloudy rainy morning
with the street outside lonely
while I am dressing,
twilight moves to day
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