Gert Strydom Poems

When the stars wink, glittering above me,
it feels as if they do beacon to come nearer,
when I see them stretching to the horizon,
forming patterns or even drawing lines
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(after A.G. Visser)

On a winter afternoon it became icy cold
as Rachel and Hendrik was searching for a calf,
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She went into a rain shower
picked a geranium-flower
was in a kind of festive mood
and from getting wet it did her no good.
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(after William Blake)

I walk the street, impoverished people
do catch my eye,
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I

In the first year of the reign of king Darius
over the Chaldeans
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I have been told by a young mortician
about a very strange odd incident
where declared dead by a physician
as a corpse to the mortuary went.
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No other man
can ever feel,
like I do feel about you
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Love is like a gentle smooth pond
and then life comes with its cares and pain
and love's ripple effect spreads far and beyond
and like drops of pure rain
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At the starting of the Angola Civil war
during December 1975 a armoured car
of battle group X-Ray attacked the enemy
in the town of Lobito who did run away and flee
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Laying with a couple of bushman trackers
in the darkness of a almost starless clouded sky,
not being able to make a nice hot fire,
being too near to the enemy
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