Gert Strydom Poems

A teenager that is a drone pilot
that he used to play with,
helped to destroy a Russian tank and truck convoys
by helping to locate them as they headed to Kiev
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Azure and deep blue lays the ocean stretched out
with the waves washing at Rooiels over the rocks,
when I pick up small green pumpkin shells for you
and my mobile phone is off and nobody will phone us,
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Russia plans to default on its foreign debt
on 26 June 2022 and they are searching
for an excuse not to pay.
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I got involved with you,
forever you made me your own
and now you do remain in my memory
but also in the moments like now,
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"In Thy power, Almighty, trusting, did our fathers build of old:
strengthen then O Lord, their children to defend, to love, to hold-
that the heritage that they gave us for our nation yet may be:
bondsmen only to the Highest and before the whole world free.
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Only the darkness of my spirit I can bring to you, my love,
and myself I want to give to you in the poverty of what love is,
my heart you have got for three decades and I think you do know it
and now I come to you to live through the bright sunny days.
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Only the darkness of my spirit I can bring to you, my love,
and myself I want to give to you in the poverty of what love is,
my heart you have got for three decades and I think you do know it
and now I come to you to live through the bright sunny days.
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"You must realise, however, that in the last days
difficult times will come. People will be lovers
of themselves, lovers of money, boastful, arrogant,
abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful,
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(for Annelize)

Minutes will run into hours that pass without me,
hours to weeks and will become months alone,
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An Organised Ukrainian pull-back is taking place
at Severodonetsk and the army of the Ukraine
is busy falling back to prepared positions
with their equipment and soldiers during
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