Gert Strydom Poems

My retrenchment is raw in me (Ballade)

(in answer to Robin Camhee)
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(after N. P. van Wyk Louw, in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

With the absolute truth of life I wanted
in our sincere love totally unembellished
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There is nothing in this world that can deface
the way that you in beauty do in this world excel
or even the expressions that do behold your face.
No rite, enchantment or any kind of quaint spell
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(in answer to Robin Camhee)

Stranded a white male stands at a traffic light,
unemployed by the black regime's Affirmative Action,
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

I did drink in the darkness
against the beating of my stormy heart,
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Lovely are your eyes and so they will be forever for me
and through the passing years just the same they do remain
where through passing time in my heart the same you will be
and time after time into my life you do gorgeous come again
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With a wheelbarrow he is among the commuters,
while he crosses the road two cars hoot at him
and do almost loose one of the three computers,
while jobless as a white male his life looks dim.
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"only God knows
and He isn't perched on any tree" - Christy Brown

(in answer to Gail Dendy)
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The day was humid and very warm
which brought a sudden flash-storm,

from cobalt blue the sky turned gunmetal-grey
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The madness of a country falling apart
is ominous brought forth when shots are fired,
scenes are displayed in the windows of police-flying-squad-vans
that ineptly are driven to and thro
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