Gert Strydom Poems

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311.
At A Time I Did Truly Love (Sextilla / Sestet)

At a time I did truly love,
as if it comes from God above
with something in every kiss,
something that I cannot explain,
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312.
Write Me A Few Words

Write something today
that sweeps my feet, my heart away
with a kind of loveliness,
that falls softly like a golden ray.
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313.
My Body Is The Temple Of His Love

(after Hafiz)

My body is the temple of His love,
my heart, my mind even though my own
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314.
Without Change Our God Exists

Without change our God exists,
through aeons the same,
to our fathers a comfort and help
and with us still his love remains
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315.
Queuing At A Primitive Bus Stop (Englyn Proest Gadwynog)

316.
A Brown Rock-Pigeon, Flutters Just Past The Porch

A brown rock-pigeon, flutters just past the porch
picks up some small insects from the mown lawn
from where it continually calls its mate,
at a distance sparrows splash in water.
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317.
The Song Of Despair

Somehow you are missing from my memory.
The night falls slowly, coming with tranquillity.
Deserted is our once happy home as you are gone,
my whole life has turned into stone.
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318.
Moving

There’s confusion to find things,
to prepare the kitchen, the rooms
when the hallway and lounge,
the garage is standing full of boxes
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319.
Meteorology

The small golden spaniel
first told me whining
and then barking
at the French windows
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320.
Street Hawker

I close the window
of my pickup angrily
as there the man with
spraying can comes
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