Gert Strydom Poems

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What a situation it was at Checkers in the Springs Mall
when our own Pick a Pay was closed on a holiday,
while we had to get food and other necessities,
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My God, I thank You for the rain that does fall,
for Your many blessings great and small,
for daily being alive in a time of strive,
I pray that You will help us in our daily life,
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after Vincent Oliphant)

When I look deep in your green-brown eyes
I see that the world looks different:
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But once bloomed that crimson rose
which could stand with her head held high,
against life's darkest sky.
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The eye measures everything in colour and black and white
but do not see that which is deep in the heart,
where love gets an own kind of stature,
I do own the beautiful of you in memories,
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(to my wife Daleen: Helena Dorothea, after Edgar Allan Poe)

Sweet Helen, you long to be with me,
while we do not live in the same home
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(after WH Auden)

1 The image of the Beast (Swannet)
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(after WH Auden)

1 The image of the Beast (Swannet)
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(for Daleen)

On my knees on the soft sand You do find me,
the sun draws a silver line up to the horizon,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

I want to thank You for one moment in an hour
where we did not speak a word with each other,
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