Gert Strydom Poems

Fast asleep I thought I heard of footsteps the sound,
as if you were there disturbing my rest,
in the moonlight I saw you with your hair unbound
and I saw the slight heaving of your breast.
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Outside a bird constantly calls for its mate,
a grey-lourie does only talk with me,
out of my life you are now completely gone
and I feel forsaken by man and God.
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(after WH Auden)

The Russian bear does revel in causing gore
its vicious claws no living thing can ignore,
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Here, early I did awake
and saw the orange-red daybreak.
Even in this dim first-light's twilight,
the sky is already dull-blue
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((For Annelize, after Marija Najthefer Popov)

My intimate and loveliest memory
track all the way back and bring me to you;
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To shock and terrorize civilians to the core,
Russian Stalin-organ rocket-launchers did fire
at orphanages to cause great havoc and gore
and as wars do go these circumstances were dire:
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(for Annelize, after Alan Seeger)

From a young-man I have changed
but now I pray to love you once more;
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(for Annelize)

In the darkest days I recall your name,
while Russians do with weapons the Ukraine blast;
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(for Annelize)

It's quite strange now to live away from you,
where from you I am a thousand miles gone,
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(for Annelize)

Tonight I looked at your photographs,
listened to your voice-notes again,
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