Gert Strydom Poems

(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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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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This morning I am waiting
on the light
to start the day
and thinking about something
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Forgive
forgive them
who set the bomb
slaughtering nineteen people
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I will always remember you
with golden eyes
swimming in mine,
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It was dark in the garden
when that night Judas
and a crowd of soldiers
and officials with clubs
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Who would have thought that a time would come
where daylilies flower right through the winter
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while the rain fell as if endless,
you pulled me nearer in moment upon moment
and I was caught in the heat of your arms,
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There is a kind of flower
that only once a year
opens her buds
and when the moon rises full and bright
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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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