Gert Strydom Poems

Slowly I do adjust to hoe life now is
but you do still remain loving me
while I am becoming aware how things fit together
Slowly I do adjust to hoe life now is
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I am devoting my whole life to you,
days that are merry and some that are blue,
some divine intervention made us meet,
to me you will always be very sweet
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When we did meet I had lost all of my confidence
that had been with me through my younger years,
God himself created you as my companion in His providence
and although at a time our love has brought me tears
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(after Mongane Wally Serote)

At a time I did call you fatherland
and there are other countries
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like hunting, parachuting, motor-biking
takes precedence as we go everywhere,
when together all fear we do vanquish,
and sometimes we are in tranquility hiking,
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At times you do astound me
and in your presence sometimes I feel brave and a fool
like a child that is lost in a store full of sweets
when continually our love comes to new heights.
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Red-blonde your hair gleams and they are delicate
when together we walk to the church
and suddenly the world feels pretty and open
when the sun glistens and shines in a blue sky
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My stupid fingers write words to you
as you do notice me while my whole world falls apart,
as there are something bright in your eyes
in which I find a great familiarity
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When I loose my job, my possessions and wife
FW is charmed by his new spouse,
while my whole country is given away
and what a big friend I have got in FW.
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With a pair of compasses and a ruler
in mathematics almost the impossible is realised.

In mathematical quadrature
the structure of a flame,
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