Gert Strydom Poems

"You shall hear of wars and rumors of wars:
see that you be not troubled:
for all these things must come to pass,
but the end is not yet.
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(for Annelize, after Alan Seeger)

From a young-man I have changed
but now I pray to love you once more,
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(for Annelize)

"He changes the times and the seasons:
He removes kings, and sets up kings:
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There is something so very expected
as glad my heart sing and unexpected,
where your new picture I before me see,
it's been long but we are still connected
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Far too many cries, voices, actions and lies
draw, force and oblige me to write something,
as in the last part of summer birds sing,
in dismal horror call outright to me,
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(for Annelize)

Where fragile we flutter God does notice it,
it's Him that makes it better and beautiful bit by bit.
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At eighteen I had been called up to war,
for training, and the country to defend,
the days my life, was turned and bend,
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Where in my life I now count the hours,
days pass while mornings come and go,
where You do turn my life around and do repair it,
even when I fall and have to try again.
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Putin, a psychopath, in front of a crowd
celebrating the annexation of another country,
misquotes the Bible:
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(for Annelize, in answer to Vanja Bašić)

Your lips: red and shiny is in my memory,
the glance that takes me into your beautiful eyes,
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