Gert Strydom Poems

The Ukraine is restoring and expanding
it's decommissioned river ports
in the Danube river
to be able to export its grain,
...

(for after I. D. du Plessis)

A friend says that I am a great poet,
that I can have any wonderful beautiful wife
...

The Ukrainian army is systematically
destroying the ability,
of Russian units to fight
before the counteroffensive starts.
...

I want to wrap the whole world in you,
I want to hold you very tightly against me,
not to overwhelm you
but to look at everything through your eyes.
...

Olena Zelensky,
the First Lady of the Ukraine,
have probably saved her country
and her nation,
...

Daily to me you have great beauty
and outside the redbreast do sing
calling for rain in its worshiping
and I do not say this out mere duty
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With overwhelming soldier, rocket and tank
Russia is in battle against the Ukraine,
believing they will with this control gain.
A vehicle that they do not even rank:
...

(for Annelize)

From the time I know you my feelings are sincere and heartfelt,
with you I was for years wrong but now I am right
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Four of the hundred advanced battle-tanks,
the T-90M of Russia has been shot-out
and there is great fear in the Russian ranks,
when in war any of the tanks drive about.
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(for Annelize)

Sometimes it feels as if I hold on
to a life of many years back
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