Gert Strydom Poems

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231.
I Really Miss You

The sun has burnt
the morning’s fog away
and now its
a bright hot sunny day.
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232.
With You My Life Goes Up And Down

With you my life goes up and down
and there is never a silent kind of time,
while you are my very own
and like a rose in its prime
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233.
It Was A Dark Day Afternoon

It was a dark day afternoon
with the sky brooding met die lug
and at s time when
it would be night soon
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234.
When The Sun Rises In The Morning

When the sun rises in the morning
away in the east it hangs red
and all the trees in this autumn
are already leafless
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235.
Edmund Clerihew Bently (Clerihew)

236.

I

Not all kinds of things can be explained
by mere science or by some philosophy
and so the essence of life has remained
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237.
At The Salt March

When the wind is adrift
not a pebble of sand is stirring
at the salt marsh vapours lift
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238.

They came in the middle of the night
in a huge crowd, almost like a lynching gang
the type who previously had torched,
burned their own alive
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239.
Carnations In The Garden

There are carnations in the garden
in colours of ruby red,
pure white and blossom pink
and some pink with deep purple inside
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240.
The Battle Of Cuito Cuanavale

I. Outnumbered by armour (A reply to William Shakespeare)

Outnumbered by armour
and by men we met the enemy,
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