Gert Strydom Poems

Thunder;
blue-white energy
flashing downward sizzling,
frightens everyone of blazing
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In the sandy desert we were silent;
where white and brown sand lies next to each other
we saw aloes and lilies growing together,
a sand-grouse or maybe another bird
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Like a tree trunk or a piece of wood
that is being carried along
by a river or the sea
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(After Divena Collins)

Love is much more than only chemistry
a kind of binding, feeling that comes free
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On the highway a female traffic cop pulls me off
and with a book and pen
she trots to the window
which glides electrically into the frame.
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A stairway wounds up to a springy height
where my body reaches high against the blue sky,
the pool's is small against my eye,
where I stand in contemplation
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With her light purple breast that gleams
a blue jay descends to the fallow land
where she dances around in sorrow
like a welding flame that impudently trembles
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To me you are the most precious and beautiful of women
someone that believes in me
while life comes daily with a new kind of omen
and although our love is how it ought to be
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There is something great to gardening
and in these early days of spring
some birds do frolic and flutter
while others do sing
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