Gert Strydom Poems

With Major General Sir George Pomeroy in command
the Hussars, Gordon Highlanders,60th rifles
and a contingent of the naval brigade,
climbed Majuba hill
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I see a spade making holes
and shoots of peach trees
Appearing in rows in an orchard.
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It’s the second day that I visit
on the farm near Reivelo,
just past Vryburg.
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With a bow in his hand
the hunter sneaks
above the wind,
following the tracts
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What a hell of banging sound resounded
in the inner city
on that day.
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The British descended
on the Transvaal and Orange Free State
from their island
on the other side of the sea
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Like a lightning
striking from a azure blue sky
and hitting where nobody expects it,
is the pain
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Summer is forever sunny
like the smile on your face,
wet at times when a storm brews
like the drops on your cheek
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Even if your servants
are sent to visit and destroy
and with glowing red eyes
tries to squeeze the
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To no world beyond will I climb,
when like in Jacobs dream
I see Thy ladder
descending down to me,
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