Gert Strydom Poems

(after A. G. Visser)

In front of the Devil innocence walks past
when the Satan realises that he is going to find no kind of rest,
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(after A. G. Visser)

In Goan beyond the entrance of Miramar
there is a desert full of danger
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(for Annelize)

The High-veldt is beautiful the sky is open and blue,
I wonder if you from the Cape will be able to settle here,
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(after A. G. Visser)

He is larger than a big giant
with a strange mole on his nose
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(after A. G. Visser)

When you go to a tranquil silent stream
surrounded by willow tree after willow tree
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When the night does come dark with patches of shadow
and the tiredness so slowly are sneaking up on me,
then there is something that sneaks in at the window
a gnome with a striped bag and he is bended
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(for Annelize)

Sometimes it feels as if I will never find you
when the morning gleams bloody red
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(in answer to Etienne van Heerden)

In the piece of veldt across the road
where at a time were lion cages he lives,
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

Two toddlers stand at the playing-ground at the lake
the whole world is turned upside down for them in it
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I went in into the hospital
saw three doctors standing around your bed,
oxygen tanks did guard you,
outside it was night with the moon
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