Gert Strydom Poems

Before Christmas a mad old man told me
how to write a proper English sonnet
as free verse was not to him any poetry
and great anger was all that he did get.
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(after S. J. Pretorius)

How very lonely it is in the city
where rain does sieve down for weeks
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(after W. E. G. Louw)

Being against citizens of his country being detained
at the Byzantine Court as the ambassador of Venice
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(for Annelize, after W. E. G. Louw, after N. P. van Wyk Louw)

High above an aeroplane flies past
that does cut the room's window in two
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(in answer to W. E. G. Louw)

I saw You, as God, King, Priest and Judge
and know that all men do only come to salvation through You
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Mary most lovely maiden in Nazareth
God did watch your ways,
when the archangel Gabriel stood in front of you,
did have a message for you as a woman and as a mother.
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(for Annelize in answer to D. J. Opperman)

In front of me in the sugar-bush tree a weaver twitters
where the old farm dam full of water does shine down below
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(for Annelize, in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

In my spring, summer and autumn you do remain to me
the only true and pretty woman
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(for Annelize, in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

Life did make her an angel,
other people did notice something holy and beautiful in her
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(for Annelize, in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

This is where I do find you
when after years you do climb back into my heart
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