Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize, after Tientjie du Toit)

Grey is the turtledove that comes down fluttering,
delicately bodied the laughing dove looks at him
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(for Annelize)

When smiling at you I nod my head,
read every word from your lips
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(for Annelize)

When again as lovers we do meet
I will take you to go adventuring
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(for Annelize)

I do have a picture of you in my mind
where you do me truly deeply understand
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(after Hannatjie Schreck)

I do not want to stare myself blind anymore
but do want to confess the real truth here
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You let my cup overflow with joy and happiness
where I am coming to you on this pilgrimage,
do feel the prayer beads of your fingers and knuckles,
do want to pour out my being, body, soul and spirit
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Past the perspective I will find the old footpath
that leads directly to your heart, soul and body
to experience the blossoms of your lips in the spring,
to feel the sun of your eyes burn into me,
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Terrorist men in a cream coloured car blew up the world,
blew up the lives of many pedestrians
who were just innocents going on their own way
on twenty May nineteen eighty three.
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(after Stevie Smith)

Nobody saw him dying
when he was moaning
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(for Annelize)

You are the only true one,
against our love I have no resistance,
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