Gert Strydom Poems

I notice little Christina sitting on a coach
with her cat Sonya in her arms,
the cat has green eyes and is brown and white
and something draws me to look closer:
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(for Annelize, in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

Next to the lake we are in each other's arms
and there it reflects images of you and me,
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(for Annelize)

In my mind's-eye you were with me
in the late afternoon at the marsh full of reeds,
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You do plan a wonderful new place
in another better time and space
where the child and lamb hides with the lion
and are save and welcome in the pit of the snake,
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Despite a thousand soldiers and equipment,
reinforced by shipment after shipment,

some people will see it as past sheer madness,
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Like no other time in history in a war
with a immediate connection to the frontline
technology acts as it never did before,
while people connect with whom they do align
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Near to Seratov at Engels airfield
deep into Russia at a strategic bomber base
in the early morning Ukraine did Russia face,
to their civilians from attack to shield.
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Residents in Southern Ukraine reported
several Russian military units and munitions,
to Tokmak and Melitopol being transported,
where to hold Crimea is one of Putin's ambitions.
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"If you belong to the Messiah, then you are
Abraham's descendants indeed, and heirs
according to the promise." Galatians 3: 29
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In Bahkmut a female soldier codename 'Witch, '
tells about the fighting, about people living underground,
about how she did a wound of a fellow soldier stitch,
about happiness that she during the war has found.
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