Gert Strydom Poems

In sheer beauty my mistress’ eyes exceeds the sun,
her lips is more pretty than it’s rising,
her breasts are tender and pure, each one
with a pink fragility, rose tipped, quite amazing
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Rose petal pink, orange tingeing into white-grey
the evening twilight fades away,
the soldiers, from general down,
the lawyer, the city lark, accountant, the office clown
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I

The summer day draws to a end
with its last light spent
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You that heroic every single day are victorious over darkness,
flaming make your presence known to the whole wide world
with your brightness even burn banks of miss away,
while you watch over insects, animals even the whole of humanity
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There was a valiant bank robber, who was well known,
who scorned to earn a living as policeman
and after robbing bank after bank became renown
admired by every man and every woman
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Seagulls are flying from edge tot edge,
their screeching voices call the veldt, the sky the sea
of South Africa stretching east and west
to a carnivorous hunt above the ridges, sea ditches
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Seagulls are flying from edge tot edge,
their screeching voices call the veldt, the sky the sea
of South Africa stretching east and west
to a carnivorous hunt above the ridges, sea ditches
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I saw the thunder flashing down
and yet another one again,
heard the rain splattering,
suddenly a torrent splashing
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Somewhere between now and then
I changed from a boy to a man
and had learned how sacred life is
and the Father can do anything.
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The words in Your book remain
scribbled in my heart,
in memory to retain
and from them I cannot part.
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