Gert Strydom Poems

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1791.
At Heart I Am Missing You (English Sonnet)

I do know at heart that you are still mine,
that you are perceptible and tangible real,
do not know of errors that you repine,
do not know that living apart is ideal,
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1792.
Daily For Your Change Of Heart I Pray (Sicilian Sonnet)

Where for months I have been from you away,
I loved you in my soul and my heart.
From the very moment we were apart,
needed you on every single sunny day.
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1793.
Apocrypha: Psalm 73 A

Where every living mortal thing does honour God,
nothing can stop Your salvation and judgement,
and all of creation knows that back You will come,
only man is full of iniquity, impudent and stupid.
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1794.
I Thought For My Own Good (Italian Sonnet)

I thought that for my good you were pursued
while at my first glance I did real love see,
it had not been some amorous charity.
I did you adore as you I wooed.
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1795.
Entrancement (Italian Sonnet)

Your expression and your eyes and face
do fill my mind's dreams and my imaginings,
gleams as it from the source of beauty springs.
Your body, your figure your moving grace,
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1796.
It's Far Better For Me That I Do You Forget (English Sonnet)

Once our love flamed hot like an ember,
now away from you, you have destiny set.
If the great and good of love I remember,
it's better for me that I do you forget.
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1797.
Like A Modern Delilah (English Sonnet)

Without you I know no joy or sorrow,
as the sun is on its way going down,
do not know what waits in the tomorrow,
if it will be a day alone in our town.
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1798.
Maybe So It Will Be To Infinity (English Sonnet)

As red as the sunny day had begun
where now you are alone at our own home,
in the twilight dusk sets the flaming sun,
in the tomorrow it will once more roam.
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1799.
It's As If From Me Away She Has Flown (English Sonnet)

On stage in life's great amphitheatre
I see in the throng of people her sweet face,
where she does not care that I do love her,
as she do me from her own life erase.
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1800.
To Understand You No One Can Aid (English Sonnet)

Now you are in my wild imaginings.
as I dream, are forsooth of what was youth.
Mine you are not in the reality of things:
a marriage on hold is the bitter truth.
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