Gert Strydom Poems

(after I. D. du Plessis)

For three days Nonkala works alone under the summer sun
and she would have followed her husband if she could
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

For years there is great drought and famine
and almost the last of the wild antelope has died
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(for Annelize)

More than for any other for you I do care
and a love so selfless and pure as this is rare
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Like a huge dragon
of which the back reaches into the clouds
they lay in front of our fathers
in their great trek
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

Dingaan lifted high both war-club and assegai
did not comprehend the disaster that he was bringing upon his own Zulus
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(for Annelize)

If the world were of all flowers and trees stripped,
if all of your love were from my heart ripped
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Over the veldt rises the shy moon in a narrow yellow band
when like the flowering cosmos the stars stand
where the universe God do for His children prepare
while over you and me He takes great care
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(in answer to I. D. du Plessis)

With science to the moon man has gone,
to the planets and the stars further on
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(for Annelize)

I have been afraid that this great love cannot last,
knew that nothing again could be as great as this
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

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