Gert Strydom Poems

You are my all season girl and wife
who flowers constantly more lovely than spring,
the one who constantly leaves me speechless with her love,
the one who I trust with everything in my heart.
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(in answer to Anne Bradstreet)

If ever a man knew with every feeling and sense
that he was adored, trusted, respected sincerely
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(in answer to N.P. van Wyk Louw)

Where I in all my own things
stand naked before Your glance and insight
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Eagerly I want to bring happiness to you,
write verses about love in sincerity
and you are in my head, soul, hart and body,
between us there is much more than just emotion.
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In struggle, heartache and tranquility,
through a life of righteousness and sin
my best and worst days you do enter in
and with you I am bound and I am free.
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(for Daleen)

I come to you during the silence of tonight
to tell you how very dear you are to me
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(for Daleen on her birthday)

You run quickly into my arms,
you are astonished with all of life
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My doll, there is ground and grass in your eyes
and everything earthly did find its scope in you.
My girl, you do give me the ability
to fight the struggle of life for you
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At times we lie with limbs interlacing
and in my neck your hot breath I feel
as in sleep each other we are embracing
and the feelings are actual and surreal
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In me to my mother tongue and country there is a bond
and the Capital City that is full of jacaranda trees
but deeper than this it's in you that I am lost,
you know me in my humanity and also every secret.
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