Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

While daily I do try a living to make
I do claim your heart for my love's sake
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Love has got something
of feelings and a decisions
mended together,
but how do you
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In Brakpan at a time
lived a breaker
build very well
like a young Tarzan,
...

I walk right into
the wind that blows softly,
for a meeting
with the dark blue ocean
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When I was a student
I bought a box of chocolates
one evening at a café
to give as a gift
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At times the stretch
to the jumping board
and landing patch
lay magical
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Just outside the window
at the fountain
a place in Tuscany
runs into violet hills
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When I was in standard nine
(now grade eleven)
I had a crunch
on my English teacher.
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Before we can dance
on the wind
we have to crawl
from place to place.
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You lie beside me
with your hot soft body
touching mine
and I wish for the night
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