Gert Strydom Poems

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131.
As My Prehistoric Father Did

Take my words to above
to a place of ineffable greatness
and let me behold in prayer
the unnameable God
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132.
A Child

God gives a child
for a while as a gift to you
to keep in your arms.
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133.
Now I Pray (In Answer To Matthews Phosa

God, help me, You did not create me
to beg for crumbs
and I bend my knees to nobody
but to You who deserve it
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134.
Glory To God

Glory to God, some early birds does sing
while in winter the icy snow does glow,
in summers the sun rise hot and lovely
while there is some pleasure in everything,
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135.
The Autumn Is In The Leaves

The autumn is in the leaves,
in the gestures of people,
when trees are already standing as skeletons,
the autumn is bringing pain
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136.
Red Carnations

With big brown eyes
she watches him
where he is sitting
right opposite her
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137.
In This Distant Country

In this distant country
everyone wants to find
An own place in the sun,
and some people want to use force
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138.
Haiku’s Of Love

When the small death folds
around us, both of us sweat
and die together
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139.
After The Farm Invasions In Zimbabwe

The violent dispossession of farms
in Zimbabwe
is seen by some people as lawlessness (1)
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140.
Ballad Of The Nightly Hours

(After N. P. van Wyk Louw)

In the early evening
you were luring right against me
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