Gert Strydom Poems

It's silent right through the house at daybreak
and only the songs of the birds comes through the windows
but we are closed to the outside
when the sun only peeps with its head over the horizon,
...

I am searching for a beautiful little cottage at the ocean,
for a place where at times a person can stand still
and behold the miracles of the Lord,
where waves continually break with brute force,
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I asked God for a wife
and then you came
to fight for me and pray with me
and together to cry and laugh
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that spirals up to You
on which at times I do stumble and fall
and then do get up again to head on.
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(in answer to Vernie Plaatjies)

Past the blue sky, moon and stars
I long for you
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With know-how and trust
seeds sprout from the dust
and with the summer sun and rain
the fields are full of maize again
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Every day I find something new
in what people do or say
and every now and then
the world does ring
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When suddenly the thing called happiness is gone
and in the great old world we are all alone
then it's hard to find any kind of peace of mind
and it's as if we become the only one
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Maybe far too long I have waited
for the time to come to meet you again,
to walk with you in the sieving winter rain,
to with you be elated
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