Gert Strydom Poems

Gigantic it does fly past my head,
if it's a humblebee I do not know but it is a bee
that hangs on the purple-blue flowers of the big sage-bush
on a hot spring afternoon to get some of the nectar,
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Just before a huge gale in the dim twilight
people do notice your ancient ship sailing past in the last part of day
while the breakers do rage in that coming night
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(after Douglas Livingstone)

Leave the plovers to make their nests,
do not burn their piece of veldt to the ground,
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(for Annelize)

I did meet you in my student days
but did somewhere loose you suddenly
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Weekends when the longing for a barbeque do catch people
when they long for fried chops, steak or sausage
I can smell the fragrances of many fires
as if in our neighbourhood the smoke of offering fires do hang
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Early in the afternoon they did almost like a band
smoke in the toilet
and it was Camel, Lexington and every kind of cigarette
when they did enjoy it to their later misery
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(after Cullen Gouldsbury)

In the history of days long gone
in my mind a warrior chief stands alone
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(after J. J. R.Jolobe)

From Ndlambe the chieftain, messengers go out
to the captains to gather every impi regiment to bring about
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(after J. J. R.Jolobe)

From Ndlambe the chieftain, messengers go out
to the captains to gather every impi regiment to bring about
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(after Eugène N. Marais)

To Rakwena the big old hippopotamus hole
with the jar that she is taking to fetch water
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