Gert Strydom Poems

(after William Shakespeare)

From the stars I cannot events of the future pluck
or find any answers in this kind of mere astronomy
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(in answer to Lina Spies)

The words between us is something like holy ground,
where rhetoric gets meaning in the mundane,
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On this bright lovely day you do seem so sadly
where the entire world is abundant with great joy,
and I will accompany you into nature gladly
while the smallest thing seems to you annoy.
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(in answer to Lina Spies)

If I could catch you in a verse
no beauty or depth would be able to express you,
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Blessed is the time that we do together spend,
where much more than the world you are to me
and sheer magic do nature to your beauty lend
where with you every day of life I do want to be,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Where with intense analysis you do look at every word
you do at times feel to me like a darling full of cunning
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