Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

If the world were of all flowers and trees stripped,
if all of your love were from my heart ripped
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Over the veldt rises the shy moon in a narrow yellow band
when like the flowering cosmos the stars stand
where the universe God do for His children prepare
while over you and me He takes great care
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(in answer to I. D. du Plessis)

With science to the moon man has gone,
to the planets and the stars further on
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(for Annelize)

I have been afraid that this great love cannot last,
knew that nothing again could be as great as this
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

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(after C. M. van den Heever)

Where every night at sunset she stands at her window
with tears she reads the written characters very slow.
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(for Annelize)

"I do love you intensely and intimate, " I said
your lips were soft, glistening and a kind of red
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That mighty Leviathan that do in water dwell
of whom the Bible does tell
is none other than Lucifer who God did expel
when as a man God came to save men from hell
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(after I. D du Plessis)

Every seven years when a wild storm do rage,
when the age old ship do around the Cape its passage wage
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(for Annelize)

In the world the tempest of the rain and wind was strong
and while the summer sun was white hot and high
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