Gert Strydom Poems

Outside swallows chirp to You their song of praise,
weavers gambol the morning yellow and red,
they know that every good thing comes from You,
where you scatter their seed all over the veldt,
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin}

I wanted to find shelter in yesterday's tranquillity,
against attacks that humanity and the world makes.
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(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)

Daily I call on God while I do perish,
to straighten all of my ways,
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My Lord and my God, today is the first day
of another new and unknown year.
I ask that You do consider sparing humanity,
where You do know what waits on every person.
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In tatters is my heart

(in answer to Daleen / Helena Enslin)
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In my life I know no other woman
who like in pure mathematics have everything suspended,
where you do stop our marriage
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To the end of time I would love you if I may
where I cannot stop it to love you
and in this New Year I miss you on every day,
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This morning in the dim and cloudy twilight
while outside a dove does coo for its soul-mate,
do over the mere beauty of life elate,
nothing in my own life seems sunny and bright
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(after Gert Vlok Nel)

You were the woman that found me and brought me back again
and I did love you and were afraid to try again
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(in answer to Koos Kombuis)

At a time you were like my own shadow
that followed me just where I went,
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