Gert Strydom Poems

Maybe there is a deep secret
of how people really do find happiness
or maybe meaning blows away like leaves in the wind
with how life really is
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When in an act of satanic might
the earth was plunged in to eternal night
and the Lord of the universe was crucified
to the demonic delight
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I

Why did the chrysanthemum wait long
to open it's quivering twisted rays?
When other flowers are gone it grows strong
in these much more colder wintry days
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That night thunder flash after thunder flash
roared blood red,
I could smell scorched flesh, saw the havoc
of the burnt dead,
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Day after day I yearn, look at him,
watch where he lies naked against me,
I see the sun rising red in the east,
I yearn that in passion again he will take me.
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Frolicking grains of dust are blown away,
are spreading everywhere,
blown away lies violets
in the marsh and veldt
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As soldiers we have smelt the scorching flames
of man made hell,
witnesses to the effects of exploding
shell upon shell,
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(for Daleen)

Long before first light
in the darkness of the late night
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(after Uys Krige)

Here is some red-roman, barracouta and codfish.
Your wife will love it when the fish is soft
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Life has changed from what it was before,
far too suddenly from each other we are apart.
I do not known what the future has in store,
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