Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Slowly my days turn around and around
as the new mornings do come,
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Long ago there was an older brother
to whom the younger brother did listen,
an uncle that could buy gifts
but life did take its wide turns
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In a place far away on the other side of the moon
there is a road that runs beyond the horizon
where the bullfrogs croak and the crickets sing
and the fairy-princess stand with a basket full of stars
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Far past forgetting there is a land
where the rock rabbits wait at their observation posts,
where you can find the tracks of duiker on the sand
and hear a babbler laugh high up in a tree
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(for Annelize)

I do want to have long conversations with you,
to tell you how meaningless my life is
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(for Annelize)

I do want to have long conversations with you,
to tell you how meaningless my life is
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By beautiful woman in whose eyes the Southern Cross does gleam
for me you are pretty, secretive and clever,
but I do always only find your row of footprints
where constantly you climb back into my heart,
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I. The Lord's Supper

There was suddenly silence in the upper room
when He, the Master, did bow forward and wash their feet
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(in answer to Breyten Breytenbach)

The Lord Jesus Christ who is God
who is eternal, omnipotent, omniscient,
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(in answer to M. M. Walters)

That every human that exist do have a impact on others
are involved in life in love, pain and happiness
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