Gert Strydom Poems

You wanted to know
what lies beyond,
the endless stars
and was intrigued by the moon
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A boy on a bicycle
passes by
and whistles and waves,
but without looking at him
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There are things
which people never discuss,
like wickedness and destruction
and loss of humanity
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The eye measures everything in colour and black and white
but do not see that which is deep in the heart,
where love gets an own kind of stature,
I do own the beautiful of you in memories,
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(to my wife Daleen: Helena Dorothea, after Edgar Allan Poe)

Sweet Helen, you long to be with me,
while we do not live in the same home
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(after WH Auden)

1 The image of the Beast (Swannet)
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(after WH Auden)

1 The image of the Beast (Swannet)
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(for Daleen)

On my knees on the soft sand You do find me,
the sun draws a silver line up to the horizon,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

I want to thank You for one moment in an hour
where we did not speak a word with each other,
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The government is messing with the lives of people,
the South African government mess South Africans around,
with great numbers of the dead it will be later a real mess
and with double standards people come right up to an abyss.
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