Gert Strydom Poems

The Ukrainian army is systematically
destroying the ability,
of Russian units to fight
before the counteroffensive starts.
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I want to wrap the whole world in you,
I want to hold you very tightly against me,
not to overwhelm you
but to look at everything through your eyes.
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Olena Zelensky,
the First Lady of the Ukraine,
have probably saved her country
and her nation,
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Daily to me you have great beauty
and outside the redbreast do sing
calling for rain in its worshiping
and I do not say this out mere duty
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(in answer to H.A. Fagan)

Orange and brown the leaves fall in the autumn
when stripped trees stand like skeletons,
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(in answer to N.P. Van Wyk Louw)

Our love came to perfection,
between twelve o'clock and half past one,
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(after Lina Spies)

My Lord, You made Eve for Adam,
did touch them with Your image and the breath of life.
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(in answer to Louis Esterhuizen)

This morning my VW Polo drives down the N1,
the road snake-stripe through the High-Veldt,
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My dark-head princess in Lowenstein,
tonight it's the same moon that shines above us,
from the storeys of your palace
you can see the horizon disappearing behind the sea.
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I listen to and watch a young man
on a scouting reconnaissance mission
on the frontline in the Ukraine,
where they are only two soldiers
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