Gert Strydom Poems

How sadly I have been absent in this spring
while new sprouts and flowers were rising
when the loveliest hot days you have seen
and our love had been a struggling withering thing
...

That you are pretty
the whole world knows

but you do not really realize it
...

I

In the first year of the reign of king Darius
over the Chaldeans
...

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
...

With her long legs continually flashing,
on her small heel and toe she is dancing
keeping perfectly to the banging rhythm
in passing smiling sweetly at the king.
...

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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A touch
of lips speeds up
the quick rhythm of the heart
and a silent single glance causes
...

Since the first morning light you were up and gone
and I thought of last night as the day moved on
and voiceless between us sweet emotions remain
while through the day we both do toil alone
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Lord, now in the last years of my life
I smell the fragrance of the blooming spring flowers
and as promised You have let my eyes fall
on Your blessed Son
...