Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

It's such a bright beautiful sunny summer-day,
with tranquillity that comes on a Sunday
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In my head your last smile lingers
where it did come from your heart and soul
at a time when you regarded me as your own husband,
and I knew what things held meaning to you.
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The spring-rain is falling tonight,
the smell of wet ground is in the air,
thunder roars with its blue-white light
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My Lord, I come to You in Your omnipotence,
You know how things are between my wife and I,
how I miss her during the day and night,
that I do not know what to expect from her,
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(After John Clare)
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With you I go to bed and do awake
but alone I am and you are not here
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Outside the flowers in garden and the lawn
are drenched from all the rain
and the water gathers in puddle to puddle
while sheets of fog fades everything.
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A slight breeze stirred through the new green grass
that sprouted after the first spring showers,
time did far too quickly in the veldt pass
while we both were looking for small flowers,
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From the right way I must not deviate,
in the bright day it's night to me:
in my soul a groan, m my spirit lamentation
while you do evade me day by day.
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My Lord, I ask that you give me life,
that You do determine my days over again.
I am a sinner and punished severely
where now purposeless I wander through life
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(after Christina Georgina Rossetti)

You come to me during the night
at day are present in my greatest fears,
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