Gert Strydom Poems

When my heart sings in passion over you
where you are constantly everywhere with me
then love is a sweet fig, a piece of my memory,
which brings everything to fruitfulness,
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In life I have learnt to laugh at fate
even if my existence it did betwixt,
while by your true love I was fixed,
to live on while people do me hate,
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My God, senseless people ineptly do daily rule over me,
You know how my people and I do suffer and I am not free
and at times I stand in life in dismay while life is in disarray
but hide close to You, as if these dark days will forever stay.
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You are the word that is all life,
who spoke at the very origin
who caused all things to begin
in a perfect way without any strife.
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The great universe as it does exist
with pulsars, stars and nebula do insist
as do the moon at night, the sun at day,
that the great Originator did his power display
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The world becomes full of leaves that autumn scatters around
and cheerful like a child you throw shopping bags on the bed,
look life and me in the eyes, joyful smile,
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When the lock of the back door have been replaced,
the gutter's shiny down-pipe hangs on its place,
the pipes in the roof that want to leak are repaired,
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I have got the power to make something of my life,
in the heat and cold of all seasons that touch me,
I will not be political correct where there is oppression
and will cleave open the absolute truth from secrecy.
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(after WH Auden)

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wants to purge, discipline and feast,
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My wife smiles and pours tea for both of us,
she gestures to me with her hand
and her smile and words do sweep me along,
I see her eyes glow and feel how she is staring,
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