Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to Joan Hambidge)

I notice the impression of your eyes and face
and to me our love is intimate and more than a kind of grace.
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(in answer to Joan Hambidge)

I have forgotten how it feels to loose someone
where it starts with emotions and feelings
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I scrubbed red-brown dust from the children's feet,
from where they played in the afternoon barefoot in the summer,
stopped their teasing of each other and did put them to bed,
prayed and shared a story out of the Children's Bible,
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You lie bent and spooned very cosily against me,
do tightly hug the white sheet and the one duvet
where comfortable in your deepest sleep you lay
From all of the other bedding you are totally free,
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(after William Bloke Modisane)

When I am so very lonely I do think of you only,
while in my heart the sadness wants to scream
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(after Paul van Ostaijen)

Sometimes it's as if nobody can understand me,
although everything in my life is simple
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Where this old world does strike me down
I do now feel like a mere clown
but clear everything You do see.
Oh, my God, have mercy for me.
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From light-years away in space and time
You are the architect, designer and creator
that do take care
of a insignificant small planet that is far away.
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Destiny demands that now I must go,
that for a time we both have to part,
while fate and life wants it as so,
where still you are strong in my heart,
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It's as if you do hop and jump like klipspringer,
from rock to rock up a small hillock
where in front of the television you sleep next to me,
are fleeing for something when your legs do suddenly kick,
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