Gert Strydom Poems

Something stirred below the water
of a pool,
where a fountain splashes in.
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a Enemy soldier lies motionless
and his limbs are twisted,
reaching for the last
energy of live
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Last night your skin
was warm and soft
and I could feel your breath
against my cheek.
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When love has gone
a person is frozen
and how deep and far
the chill goes,
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When I was a child
I saw fireflies,
fly passing secretly at night.
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At the Vaal river finches twitter
and nests hang all over the willow trees
and the fishermen
sit from dusk next to the water,
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That from each other we are apart is not my greatest grief
where still I do hold in high esteem and love you very dear,
that life does pass without you in it is of my sadness chief
and it's as if in life the way to you is never to me very clear,
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Last night I saw the spine of the night,
I saw stars glow, glitter and jump far away
I did wonder about a God, who creates pure light,
who comes with deliverance to those who stray.
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The loud noise
of school girls
that shouts at each other on the bus
banish every thought
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My most beautiful memories of you
I experience again in a dream,
where you fold your clothes on a rock
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