Gert Strydom Poems

At Dnipro a Russian missile strike did hit
in the middle of a apartment building,
this do into the action of a terrorist state fit,
where they do not care to use anything,
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To stay clear and firm on principles comes to me,
where a story of my family, of a Prime Minister,
stays even where in life things become sinister:
in the way that true principals should be,
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There are women that insist to be involved in the struggle,
that man howitzers, do nurse and are snipers,
some fight on the frontline,
where a person cannot miss their impact:
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A Russian soldier on 22 September 2022 mobilized,
tells his friend of his experiences and much more:
how at first from a telephone call he had been surprised,
during the occupation in the Ukrainian war.
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(in answer to C. Louis Leipoldt)

Whiter than icy snow, like a old bone,
at rusted tanks in the Olesky-desert-sands,
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In a thousand dreams I did you see
but when I am awake you do fade away,
where I swear you did some sweet words say,
where you are already part of my energy
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Maybe it's the way we approach life
that makes it either bad or great or good,
that set to a day set an intention and the mood,
where a soldier I have written about in strife
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'It was very late at night in Washington,
very early in the morning here in Kiev.
Russian planes were in the air, and tanks
were rolling across your border. You told me
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Beloved mother

Mom, I wish I could know how life looks through your eyes,
to everything around me look with your soft humanity,
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Dire destroying fire
1 Turn off the stove
While I am asleep in the night at three o'clock
on a Sunday-morning the house is burning,
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