Gert Strydom Poems

Happy and lovely you are in the first morning light,
do walk picture perfect in to the realm of the eye
to female lines and curves you do bring bliss to sight,
as if in you the blueprint of grandmother Eve does lie
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(in answer to Joan Hambidge)

To love you intensive, sincerely and intimate
is to dare a chance to burn to ashes,
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(in answer to Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

I saw your image in a dream's retinue
where you excelled with love's gonfalon,
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It's strange that you do lay streched out next to me
where moments ago together we were just one,
where like a fountain that bubbles you keep saying things
where together we do fit into eternity,
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I wish to have met you in your youth and prime,
at a time when the things we do
are true as is reason to rhyme,
as now I see great qualities in you
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When the frost in a white sight around us everywhere does lie
you do love me while it seems, as the plants in the garden will die,

the setting sun has a soft glare
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(in answer to Nel Noordzij)

Next to me you lie so still deep in your sleep,
this impression in my memories I want to keep
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There is severe chilliness coming suddenly
when with rain winter does surprise you and me,

It's with you that shelter against every thing I find,
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Between us the words were few and far between
while we were in the act of love and its bliss
were tenderly you did again and again me kiss
while we changed from how we had been
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