Gert Strydom Poems

After a weekend you and I are caught
in how moments had been between us,
but still in all of this the longing does remain
as if we are only reaching towards each other,
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When my ways do lead to roads that stray from You
then my Lord, You do find me again
and even-though I am at times directionless a stray-child
You are the one that finds me like a Sheppard,
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Everything is measured out in the cycle of life
there is nothing that you do not provide or know of,
You have the knowledge of the antelope that dies when the hunter's shot resounds
even of the hunter that falls to a predator,
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(after Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

Beauty like yours is very rare and do not fall
in Homer's, Keats's or Shelley's poems sublime,
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My girl, to my heart and soul you are anointment,
in my words you are in many terms and disguises
and I do look out to our next intimate appointment
while with you and in you my heart constantly rises,
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(after Herman de Coninck)

Will I tell the world
of how soft your arms, body and nature is
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(in answer to Herman de Coninck)

You fold around me with days that are full of rapture like sin,
where days and nights do pass without us noticing
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Whatever the future to us might bring
I still do believe I have got something,
something of you do remain in my heart
and about love it does constantly sing,
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Where this hour in its great amazement
brings something holy and honourable to our love
between you and me there is no separation
while constantly my heart sings songs of praise to you,
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(after Louise Boshoff)

You are from your own will my paramour and wife
where you do love me with the faith of a child,
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