Gert Strydom Poems

On Sky News Australia the blonde bombshell
television presenter remarked how pathetic Putin is,
that he sends soldiers into war i.e. into hell,
but do not buckle up and does the G20 summit miss,
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As a person drives pock-marked is the landscape,
with shot-out air-defence, tanks and a armoured car,
some unexploded bombs are left in the road's tar,
some prisoners had three minutes to escape,
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On Sky News Australia the blonde bombshell
television presenter remarked how pathetic Putin is,
that he sends soldiers into war i.e. into hell,
but do not buckle up and does the G20 summit miss,
...

With great speed a thing runs
into the lounge
and braids past a bookcase
with aunt Leen behind it.
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I sit in a bar in Sixth Street,
with some flashing lights at the slot machines,
people playing at the pool tables,
the bar man smiling at someone’s joke
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Called up for armed military service
hundreds of thousands white boys
are forced into a war
of whom I am but a single one
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While walking in the park
we followed a road
twisting past a old green battle tank,
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The sulphur sky stretched from horizon
to horizon above me
without a cloud to be seen
or a speck of a single bird,
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Nobody saw him, the dead man
but still he was there
lying in the sun in the park
as he did the day before.
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The golden cocker spaniel
tried to catch some sacred ibises
where they were pecking
the ground
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