Gert Strydom Poems

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Hunger gnaws at my stomach
and a much deeper hunger of which the pain does not want to fade
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Bundles of vestibules lay tables full,
anything from pumpkins
to green watermelons,
even milk are ladled out in buckets
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Out of the mist and rain along the old road
down the slope of a small mountain pass
an old man rides with his bicycle to town
with a plastic bag in which bottles tingle
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Come to my garden
when purple irises flower perfectly,
morning glories summit over every thing
and be speechless by the glory
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No feather from Woeperdal,
no fox’s hair that falls somewhere,
no African marigolds in the spring sun
urge me to be as much in love
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At first we think
that they are Mirages
and know this time
the enemy is going to get
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If it’s lust or love
nobody will ever know
and the night in front of the hot fireplace
I cannot forget easily
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In different places
in the city the Holy Ghost
is being sold and people clap hands
and some are pushed
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I love you more
than the rain loves the earth,
the sun the sea
from where it takes water.
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There are moments in every day
when the small things
that are happening brings
a sense of belonging
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