Gert Strydom Poems

My God cares for birds,
butterflies and bees
and flowers and trees
and even cares much more
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God's glance penetrates all things
And that what my mask hides,
I cannot keep from Him,
not even make it invisible and small
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In three years or four, holy beliefs are slain,
He did not make
either man or the earth, Charles Darwin's
theory does take
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(after Archibald MacLeish)

She does not worry about why things are;
that they exist
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Not the loss of men, machines or a country
to destiny,
or the farewell of you to whom I long,
or to be free
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The new government talks down; they deceive
about winning
against us, the war in which we did fight;
the beginning
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We were too late born to escape from war,
was forced to go,
have caused with great manmade bolts of thunder
the slain; do know
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How will I daily look upon God's face,
while I do sin
and still daily continually do fall?
When I begin
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(after Gerard Manley Hopkins)

Your love and pure integrity is not
in dispute, Lord,
yet my enemies grow in their power,
in Your record
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(after Solomon Ibn Gabirol)

Forgive me God and set me free from punishment,
forgive my sins that are so numerous.
Remember me, for the sake of Your love
and even where Your decree has been set,
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