Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

My heart-felt feelings I cannot now hide,
there is electricity when you are here
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(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)

You did not just understand me
but time and again you did stand by me,
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Your body is the bread and Your blood the wine,
constantly You are here in fellowship
and at times I find poor broken people on the street,
where I cannot leave them to mercy.
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(after William Butler Yeats)

The world is in pieces, it falls apart,
when darkness wants to bring annihilation,
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(for Annelize, in answer to Lina Spies)

Outside lightning-bolts flash down blue-white,
and in the bright sunlight the rain pours down
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From the dress-rehearsal at the Red-Grave
I know that eleven thousand troops are taking part
in a victory parade with patriotism at heart,
where the military is shown as strong and brave,
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Arlena Barsecova in the Ukraine
near Kiev as a pensioner aged seventy,
gave reports that to Russian movements appertain
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1(for Annelize)

Between us there is no maze
where constantly we find each other,
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There’s a newspaper which the wind blows,
round and round
until it hits against me.
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This morning your auburn hair
is tied in a cocky string
behind your neck
and in the dusk
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