Gert Strydom Poems

I am so caught in technology
that my moments do turn to nothing
when the Escom / municipal power is missing
as if nothing do remain in powerlessness
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Maybe I see all of the signs of the ruination
how in the night hooligans do paint the walls with graffiti,
how the new South Africa does slowly but certainly loose its way
and we do inherit the robbery, the murder and slaughter of it,
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(for Annelize, after N. P. van Wyk Louw)

Naked and stripped from my own conceit
it's where my soul and heart and spirit now stand before you,
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(for Annelize)

When I hear your voice my heart does gallop,
it beats stormy as if it's something that I cannot stop
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(for Annelize)

I still wanted to say that you do still stay in a way in my heart
that my love for you still remains
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(In answer to Elizabeth Jennings)

At times clarity, which goes hand in hand with simplicity
do the strongest greatest most powerful poems make
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Silently, silently thoughts do sneak in into my lines
with a word sometimes a verse-line that does begin
as everything is singing their own praises and about a own existence
where you can fabricate nothing but can only write the absolute truth
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(in answer to Fanie Olivier)

Sometimes inspiration comes
from the most paltry thing,
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(for Annelize)

I love you to my heart's content and to its inner core
and to the very limit of my soul. How can I love more?
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(In answer to A. G. Visser.In answer to D. J. Opperman)

Alone in the hot late-afternoon a old grey-haired man do sit
under the cool shade of a giant Tamboti tree
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