Gert Strydom Poems

My love, it was on a sunny early spring day
that you did call, on the phone and did hurt me
and fluttering outside a myriad of birds did play,
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'Wherever we are, we will be together today,
and together we will look in the evening sky,
and together we will remember
the morning of February 24.
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(for Annelize)

I met you on a bright hot summer day,
your smile was radiant; your eyes did gleam,
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For years she did cling
to the knowledge
that someone does truly love her
and silently and faithful she did live
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(after Heinrich Heine)

More beautiful than any flower
you are fragile in your heart,
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So it’s been twenty years,
Annelize, since we wed
and a time that no man
could ever forget.
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Of you I have a kind of knowledge
that I still do keep safe
that never can disappear from my heart,
with time its still there,
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How can I catch in a single poem
the scenery that I see in your eyes,
the light that radiates in them,
the starry look that they radiate?
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