Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

You do me truly from the depth of your heart know
and still in live some things do never again return:
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I
In the caves with sandstone walls full of paintings there is quietness
where African historians and shamans do worship, life and culture express
it brings a person back to a primitive uncivilized happy time
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

I
At a bright Voortrekker fire at Blauwkrans
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

I
At a bright Voortrekker fire at Blauwkrans
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

I cannot and do not want to forget you
and tonight the night is vast around me,
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I
I stood away from the mother-city disinterred,
in the distance far away strangely thunder I heard
were I was high upon this flat tabletop great hill
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I
By Your great unseen and secret power
Lord, you do nurture each shrub and flower,
while constantly butterflies and bees are visiting
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(in answer to William Shakespeare)

I do not have a lion's claws, the teeth from a tiger's jaws,
or a phoenix's blood or a feather form the harpy brood,
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(after John Keats)

I
Long ago in far aeons when some fairy broods
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(After John Keats)

I
As the god of the golden fire, lire and bow
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