Gert Strydom Poems

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
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(with apology to Daniel Hugo)

My little buck I am wooing you
- my prints lay - right over the sand dunes -
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(in answer to Peter Levi)

If you imagine a created place
where God had never been,
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Man
friendly, excited
scheming, hunting, working
woman, vehicle, job, house,
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(after Dante Gabriel Rossetti)

How will I explore the depths of love,
through its difficulties to the shore move
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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
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(after Jules Laforgue)

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