Gert Strydom Poems

Where the Ukrainians win the country back,
town upon town is freed from the Russians,
where they find ruins and shocked people
and the Russians know these heroic people.
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(for Annelize)

My heart-felt feelings I cannot now hide,
there is electricity when you are here
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(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)

You did not just understand me
but time and again you did stand by me,
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Your body is the bread and Your blood the wine,
constantly You are here in fellowship
and at times I find poor broken people on the street,
where I cannot leave them to mercy.
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(after William Butler Yeats)

The world is in pieces, it falls apart,
when darkness wants to bring annihilation,
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(for Annelize, in answer to Lina Spies)

Outside lightning-bolts flash down blue-white,
and in the bright sunlight the rain pours down
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From the dress-rehearsal at the Red-Grave
I know that eleven thousand troops are taking part
in a victory parade with patriotism at heart,
where the military is shown as strong and brave,
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Arlena Barsecova in the Ukraine
near Kiev as a pensioner aged seventy,
gave reports that to Russian movements appertain
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1(for Annelize)

Between us there is no maze
where constantly we find each other,
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When together we do awake to another bright day
there is something special to the morning
while outside the dogs do barking play,
the train in the distance hoots out its warning
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