Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to André Letoit)

Too innocent I was as a child
to play with a girl's secret place,
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At the dam I am still waiting alone
when all of the other fishermen are gone
the float moves do go under
my body feels cold like stone
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(for Annelize, after Ingrid Jonker)

The fairy-princess whose little lamp does shine
did last night give her heart to me,
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(after A. G. Visser)

At Dingaan's big kraal Ngungunhlovu there are many fires that burn
where all regiments of his impi does gather from all across Zululand,
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(after A. G. Visser)

Centuries back the Son did play in Nazareth,
His days were full of duties and fun
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(after A. G. Visser)

I The night in Beersheba (Free verse sonnet)
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(after A. G. Visser)

You hang the universe in the nought,
know about every shooting star,
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The hope that You will be coming shortly
constantly turns around and around in my thoughts,
that You do call everyone to an own mission
and in our lives do astound us with it.
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(for Annelize)

I want to thank God for you,
do want to live days that we will remember forever,
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(after A. G. Visser)

From Europe You brought our ancestors to this country
and did settle us here and did lead us further north to the equator
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