Gert Strydom Poems

1
You shall no other man but me adore
it's far too complicated to have many more
2
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When I look carefully at the things between us,
do not comprehend your behaviour and your words,
when you act as if I do not exist as your husband,
when you do not tell me the honest truth
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There is something in the blue
that I notice in the sky's hue,
as if Your own presence is in it,
as if to Your holiness it is true.
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(After Roy Campbell and Luis De Camōes)

The titan Adamastor is awoken from sleep
and his spectre rises where two oceans meet,
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Outside it's shivering icy-cold
but inside cosy hot in front of a fireplace.
Everything is like yesterday: the view ages-old
as if time comes to a halt and lasts immeasurably.
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The morning seems lonesome and forsaken
with a silence that hangs like fog over everything,
there is almost no sound to be heard
and it's as if something unknown is outside.
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I saw it frolic on top of the gate
on a bright sunny but cold winter day,
a small redbreast alone and desolate,
around it everything was brown and grey.
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(in answer to Totius)

When the evening twilight comes at the moor
then it is that I find the umber-bird there
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This morning we walked in the veldt
and unexpectedly you found a wild lily,
over it you were excited like a child,
In the city shots rang out in the distance
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I need no lead lines or stars to find You
and even if I act blind You do stay true,
even if I am at the edge of the abyss,
You help me to the right things to do.
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