Gert Strydom Poems

(after Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

How will I explore the depths of love,
through its difficulties to the shore move
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Sometimes I want to know the reasons why from You
when it feels as if You are forgetting me in Your ultimate plan
and there is no deliverance or light that I do see,
when it feels as if everything is resting on a big perchance
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(after Jules Laforgue)

The rain is sifting down for days now,
how depressing, the rain is, lover.
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While we walk around the church,
I tread on the lawn at the painted flint-glass windows
and see her calves with three doves as her company,
there is some gravel, in the distance a train whistles.
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The sun flees confused
but you are in my heart
and I am fulfilled this winter
while the winds are howling outside
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My Lord, there is something sad
that I want to bring to You
and its clear to me
that You do already know of it
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When love comes into your life
then it’s something with an own kind of beauty
and love at times even brings peace to strive.
When love comes into your life
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My Lord, my friends, family and acquaintances
are not bad but they are only people
and even our best deeds and conversations
and sometimes our desires and wishes
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(after W.H. Auden)

They had fled from him,
some for their lives from his sight,
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