Gert Strydom Poems

(after I. D du Plessis)

An abomination happens at the crossroad where lights do flash as a scary thing,
Beelzebub surrounded by evil angels wants to possess a distorted human being,
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(After William Shakespeare)

Shall I compare your beauty to the time of spring?
You are angelic, holy and intricate in your way.
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Here where I am to you beautiful and ardently loving,
I do ask that you do grant me one more night with you,
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At night while her emblem reigns, the sky is Cynthia's own domain,
yet she is on the hunt with her magic bow during the hours of the sun
where she kills animals that do humans devour, do the huntress remain,
do sneak through the woods on rainy days and twilight when it is dun,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Sometimes wordless I want to remain silent about us,
where I am scared over the power of mere words
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(after Luis de Camões, Roy Campbell and Totius)

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Where he stands on the deck of his ship
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(after Roy Campbell)

From time immortal your waters do to your delta flow
while life and living you do to the desert land bestow
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

All the seasons are reflected in the yearly tides
as they come and go through the months
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It was dark outside at that last supper,
while joyful His disciples waited upon the time of Passover,
the Lord Jesus Christ did fetch bowl
while brave Peter did laugh at a joke of John
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Cruelly people hanged my God on a cross,
Pilate washed his hands as if innocent
from this deed and in sin humanity was caught,
at three pm it was dark night and all the animals were scared,
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