Gert Strydom Poems

(after Sheila Cussons)

There is a mask that I do wear
behind which I do hide nakedly
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Why do the relationships and lives
of Elizabeth Barret Browning,
and Robert Browning in a way
remind me of Héloïse
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You devoted your life to your husband and to science,
did receive two Nobel prices,
but did pay a terrible price
as from radioactive material you were not free.
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How many times I do see pain in your eyes,
but yet you have got the capability
to look heroic, pretty and noble
even in hours of terrible tragedy
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With a consuming flame you rose,
gathering a small universe
in your slender hands
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Dear Lord I see
white teeth gleaming
in smiling black faces
of mere children
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(in answer to Koos A. Kombuis)

That God is the only thing that does remain
for the problems, the questions and wounds
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Continually surges break on the shore
by design, not chance,
as if it is written by Godly wit.
In every glance
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In the garden the woman had to guard against the snake
and then on his insistence she did take the fruit and did bite into it
as she did find Lucifer's tempting game glorious and good.
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When Jesus does return and the trumpet of God does sound
on the great judgement day this world will tremble
and each eye will see Him with his presence everywhere,
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