Gert Strydom Poems

There’s palm trees that grows in a row
down Nelson Mandela drive
and I wonder how they survive
and are full of life and vibrance,
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Tonight under the starry light
I do Your great presences sense,
while the moon is radiant white
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My babe, it's as if the first seedlings are arising
while from the earth the mystery of life is seen
and soon it will be the most beautiful spring
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All of my hope is gone,
as if it dried up for the new day
that I expected to astound me
and it's as if great evil is going to be
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(after Sir Thomas Wyatt)
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After our first separation
to my great surprise
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In my most hurting memory
you have got a place.
With other eyes I do you see
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Without you life is just an empty place,
with dark clouds that covers the sky
where I live in a moment in time and space.
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My Lord, You turn my life around
when shadows do me befall
and You do put my feet on solid ground
when demons and darkness do on me call
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(after John Milton)

In great tranquillity to my delight,
I thought I saw an angel, my wife, a Saint
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My life with you lies in pieces
of that, that I thought was love.
In thoughts now impressions remain:
things now so without meaning.
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