Gert Strydom Poems

Two people dressed in white
take steps around each other,
and around their middles
black bands are tied.
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Continually its progressions and rows,
the teacher is on patrol,
his cane sometimes swishes painfully,
there are theorems and more theorems
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Forced to meet an enemy in a rifle's sight
a unknown man appears, scratches his head,
he lights a cigarette, draws on it until it glows,
looks at a photo in a way that only his wife knows
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One night in the tranquillity
I heard Him pass,
for long moments nature was silent,
as if all things had come to a standstill,
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He who creates innumerable systems of stars
visits my heart,
He who holds the rain, the thunder and hail
also knows my sorrow,
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To know with true conviction and to believe
that God does exist, is active
in the things that do happen on earth,
to at times ask advice from Him,
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The thunder storm came suddenly; the air was drawing close,
with grey and black clouds covering the heaven
and suddenly there was no more blue
with the whole day being only grey
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In dry Namaqualand, in the stretched out paradise,
there are pretty flowers showing their faces
that rise after the first rain in that semi-desert,
appearing for days long in colourful splendour
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Just like silly André I always wanted to be,
who was bold and straight with his number three haircut
that at times was blown skew
when he knocked at our backdoor,
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The whole time we are aware of each other
from the moment that you come into class
and then I am dumbstruck
and they say its puppy love and lust
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