Gert Strydom Poems

(after Lina Spies)

Like an animal I was put on a train,
my pretty dress is stained and brown,
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(for Annelize)

There are so many things that I do want to tell you,
to me you are beautiful and have a very pretty face,
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When the jackal-buzzard
does come here and sit in a tree,
haughty does look down
and continually does cry out to me
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They sit deep in the gutter next to the tiled roof
sounds like machines that do hammer
and is doing something secretive
when scolding, cursing Mynahs break the silence,
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(for Annelize)

I wish I could only a moment of your precious time take,
look at your soulful eyes see the dimple on your cheek
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

Bellicose you view every fierce man
where your hand folds over the stabbing-spear,
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

Where he despises and do hate women he chisels the rock
to skilful free the trapped image,
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(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)

How can I keep my feelings and decisions about you in check,
or want to love you less and not tell you about my love?
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

Cornelis Fredrik Bezuidenhout is trapped in a cave
are challenged to surrender or in resistance to come out where the British rave:
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

"Surrender, " is roared once again."Against the British Empire you stand alone! "
Surrounded Jan Bezuidenhout is against many British soldiers as a man only one.
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