Gert Strydom Poems

With you that do love me
I do not know what to expect
and without you I will miss my whole life
and you are in every night and day.
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African coots and wild geese drift past
the bulrushes and bushes of reeds
and deeper in the marsh
there is something that comes alive.
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My Lord, I am devoting my whole life to you,
I have sworn a sacred oath to be true,
you affect my life, my every breath,
if it is necessary even my death;
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When the spring rain pours down
it seems as if the road does exude
a glorious cloud
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The weekend we will go
past Gordonsbay
to Rooiels
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The windows was closed behind the curtains
and shut out was the world, the night and the breeze
as if you and I was locked in
away from all heartache, pain and sin
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(after Gert Vlok Nel)

On a campus in Summerset West you did look at me
and to me you seemed more beautiful than any other girl
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Stripped naked to the most inner core
as during winter
a leafless tree stood very near to death
a branch did splinter;
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some wantonness,
a private, intimate, secret blessing
does now possess
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I sit in the shade
under the chestnut-tree
with the golden ginger cat on my lap
who pushes his front paws
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