Gert Strydom Poems

As I had a walk on the path on the hill
the wind did swish and then it was quite still
the flowering of the aloes had begun
amongst the rocks in the summer sun.
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As a pretty butterfly that flutters
along she came,
rapidly always running up and down;
nothing could tame
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On that sunny golden early morning
while the beautiful flowers of the spring
were opening and were suddenly flowering
closer to each other they were moving
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The oak size avocado tree had fruit
during the spring
and into summer, like small pineapples,
with some dropping
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A poem should touch, should palpable belong,
it should reach out,
with a kind of eternal caring truth;
it should scream, shout
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Daily I crucify Him while I dwell in sin,
while I stumble forth in life;
daily a new life for me He does begin
even when I fall down in strive
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In a vision once I saw a pretty damsel
as she did sing
with the purest mezzo-soprano voice
before the King,
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Now that we know that love claims a prize,
that it brings a kind of liberation,
that nothing else has its kind of depths
and that it binds very strong when you do find it.
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I tried to remember you
from the way that you look,
from the small frown between that your eyes
against the sharp light,
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