Gert Strydom Poems

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1991.
My Lord, Sometimes It Feels

My Lord, sometimes it feels
as if I am going through the most difficult times of my life,
as if alone I stand in a place of destruction
and as if I am constantly drawing fire from my enemies
...

1992.
My Little Buck (Parody)

(with apology to Daniel Hugo)

My little buck I am wooing you
- my prints lay - right over the sand dunes -
...

1993.
If You Imagine A Created Place

(in answer to Peter Levi)

If you imagine a created place
where God had never been,
...

1994.
Man To Live (Diamantes)

Man
friendly, excited
scheming, hunting, working
woman, vehicle, job, house,
...

1995.
Lady, I Cannot Strip Your Soul From Mine (Collins Sestets)

(after Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

How will I explore the depths of love,
through its difficulties to the shore move
...

1996.
Sometimes I Want To Know The Reasons Why From You

Sometimes I want to know the reasons why from You
when it feels as if You are forgetting me in Your ultimate plan
and there is no deliverance or light that I do see,
when it feels as if everything is resting on a big perchance
...

1997.
On A Sunday

(after Jules Laforgue)

The rain is sifting down for days now,
how depressing, the rain is, lover.
...

1998.
Outside A Church

While we walk around the church,
I tread on the lawn at the painted flint-glass windows
and see her calves with three doves as her company,
there is some gravel, in the distance a train whistles.
...

1999.
My Lord, You Do Know All Of The Masks

2000.
The Sun Flees Confused

The sun flees confused
but you are in my heart
and I am fulfilled this winter
while the winds are howling outside
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