Gert Strydom Poems

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2101.
Venice, Dreamt 28 November 2021

(in answer to Aleister Crowly)

Tonight the moon rise huge gold and blue,
hangs in the infinite sea of space like a pearl,
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2102.
An Invocation For My Wife And My Life

Probably angels did on the day with joy sing,
when the first time you opened your eyes.
It was like an unwearyingly eternal spring,
the world had sun-filled clear skies,
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2103.
Bring Your Bitter Words No More (Italian Sonnet

(After Alexander Sergeyevich Pushkin)

Bring me, sweetheart, your bitter words no more,
do not awake painful things in memory,
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2104.
That You Are Trying To Survive

You coming into my life I saw as a Godly sign
and in your company I did thrive,
with prayers I tried our love to enshrine,
where you have been the love of my life,
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2105.
Apocrypha: Psalm 83 (Refrain Stanza)

It's no humiliation to pray to You,
just where I go my belief in you stays true
and where anyone asks, You do answer in a way,
every thing You determine does Your love portray.
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2106.
You Looked More Beautiful (A)

(in answer to Aleister Crowley)

The gypsy in your blood you said you did forswore
and I was captured in your eyes as we danced,
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2107.
You Looked More Beautiful (B)

(in answer to Aleister Crowley)

The gypsy in your blood you did forswore,
I was caught by your eyes as we danced,
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2108.
I Cannot You Forget (Italian Sonnet)

(for Helena Dorethea Enslin-Strydom also known as Daleen, in answer to Aleister Crowley)

Helena, truly, I cannot you forget,
still very closer we grew with the years,
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2109.
Intimately I Know You

(In answer to Aleister Crowley)

Intimately I know you from your finger-tips
the ways you act and react in every role,
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2110.
If With All Your Heart You Loved Me (Italian Sonnet)

(after Alfred Lord Tennyson)

If with all of your heart you loved me,
what ill would I fear while I lived on earth?
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