Gert Strydom Poems

You bring to me a new pure sincere cloak
where You do know the best ways that I must go,
from Your life, blood, flesh and righteousness is every stitch
embroidered with thread that cannot break
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A thousand miles divide us from each other,
there is a photo of you saved in my heart,
a blue-print of the thing called love
while now for decades I do miss you
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South-east of Siervierodonetsk at Metolkine
under heavy artillery fire and a assault
the Russians got a foothold,
have partial success to occupy the town,
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You choose the most seductive dress in your wardrobe,
notice how it fits with your eyes and smile
and when I walk in,
you grab me at my tie.
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(after William Wordsworth)

Your smile was bright, your teeth snow-white
when first you came into my sight,
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A teenager that is a drone pilot
that he used to play with,
helped to destroy a Russian tank and truck convoys
by helping to locate them as they headed to Kiev
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Azure and deep blue lays the ocean stretched out
with the waves washing at Rooiels over the rocks,
when I pick up small green pumpkin shells for you
and my mobile phone is off and nobody will phone us,
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Russia plans to default on its foreign debt
on 26 June 2022 and they are searching
for an excuse not to pay.
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I got involved with you,
forever you made me your own
and now you do remain in my memory
but also in the moments like now,
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"In Thy power, Almighty, trusting, did our fathers build of old:
strengthen then O Lord, their children to defend, to love, to hold-
that the heritage that they gave us for our nation yet may be:
bondsmen only to the Highest and before the whole world free.
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