Gert Strydom Poems

(after Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin)

For you in my heart and soul I am yearning,
words from my spirit fill my thoughts and surge;
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Where every living mortal thing does honour God,
nothing can stop Your salvation and judgement,
and all of creation knows that back You will come,
only man is full of iniquity, impudent and stupid.
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(for Annelize)

To make contact again I did not plan
I was disillusioned, ashamed of my behaviour as a man
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With Uvalgonzavod to stand-still grinding,
with tanks not produced from lack of many a part,
acts of Ukrainian farmers bring joy to the heart,
as they tow the tanks that they are finding.
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As a friend and darling I do you hold,
my heartfelt feelings I cannot pretend,
it's as if nothing can these feelings rend
as if for me it has been long foretold.
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Major General Andrey Sukhovetsky
of the Russian Airborne Forces died.
With patriotism the Ukrainians wanted to be free,
where about a Freedom convoy Putin lied.
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Each day I pray in a time of struggle and strife
while you that I love is from me far away
that God will protect and guide you in your life
as it passes far out sight day after day
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South Africa is under an oppressive regime
and Biden is creating economic hardship:
the liberal elite lash with prices as a whip
in a big global new-world-order scheme,
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(for Annelize)

It's cold this morning and cloudy and grey,
outside it rains and the doves coo and gambol
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They did women and of the little girls rape,
the innocent was both tortured and slain,
no civilian was give a chance to escape,
a boy did nothing to the Russians explain.
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