Gert Strydom Poems

Cleverly people try to determine Your Godliness
and mortally they fail to determine Your domain
as what You really are no human does know,
no mere human can determine Your substance and Your limits.
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Insignificant I am and everything comes out of Your hand,
too wonderful and great You are for me to comprehend,
food and clothes are things that You do provide
and sincere and true I want to serve You my whole life long,
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I want to thank You for the rain that falls on every summer afternoon,
for all of the countless small blessings,
for all of the fruit that this summer brings
and for every virtuous wonderful thing
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Rejoicing I want to sing a song of Zion to You
as You still have got control of every thing,
where in unemployment You do constantly provide for me,
where You do constantly notice my misery and cares,
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(in answer to Marlene van Niekerk)

It's in a world of lonely mercilessness
where you do constantly bring joy to me,
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(in answer to Marlene van Niekerk)

My love, when the twilight and night comes dark-blue
with the evening-star and moon hanging on their places
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Day and night you are like the serene open sky
over the scenery of my life,
I find you at places where I do not expect you,
in each moment's remembering and meaning,
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The cosmos stand overgrown in pastel colours this year
where everywhere those fragile flowers are to be found,
wild daisies are in the veldt spared from the frost,
in the veldt on the farm you and I are both like children,
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To love you more sincerely
my thoughts do cling to verse lines
and I write a lovely sentence for you
as if you fit into the silences between the words
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(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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