Gert Strydom Poems

It is love that brings deeper feelings,
makes a smile jump into the eyes
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Sometimes I do ask for a bit of mercy from you,
to hesitate when you do not immediately understand
and to keep at mind
that wherever life goes
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From the days of yonder
you did prepare our garden beautifully
and like a English teagarden
planted several flowers together
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When the force of strong conviction
is overwhelming and oppressing
as if others in their own interests
want to drive you away,
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(after S. Ign. Mocke)

Much further than man’s science can see and reach
systems of stars and planets pay honour to You
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a few words that speak right through humanity,
for something that is not written in any poem or dictionary
that blows away like leaves in the wind
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At night when the stars flower in bunches
in blue-white, red and green colours
then on the air the fragrances of gardenia
and jasmine floats and comes in through the window
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(in answer to T.T. Cloete)

When lips, tongues and mouths feast on each other,
when arms surround each other in an embrace,
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Sometimes when during the hours of darkness
I miss you severely
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I will go to my wife and wrap my arms around her;
I will go and forget about all the things that hurt,
I will go as if I know about the depth of her love,
as if she will understand all of the sadness of my brokenness
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