Gert Strydom Poems

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1141.
Cynthia (English Sonnet)

At night while her emblem reigns, the sky is Cynthia's own domain,
yet she is on the hunt with her magic bow during the hours of the sun
where she kills animals that do humans devour, do the huntress remain,
do sneak through the woods on rainy days and twilight when it is dun,
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1142.
I Am Scared (Free Verse Sonnet)

(after Elisabeth Eybers)

Sometimes wordless I want to remain silent about us,
where I am scared over the power of mere words
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(after Luis de Camões, Roy Campbell and Totius)

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Where he stands on the deck of his ship
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1144.
To The Nile (Refrain Stanza)

(after Roy Campbell)

From time immortal your waters do to your delta flow
while life and living you do to the desert land bestow
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1145.
As You Are A Woman (Free Verse Sonnet)

(after Elisabeth Eybers)

All the seasons are reflected in the yearly tides
as they come and go through the months
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1146.
At The Last Supper (Free Verse Sonnet)

It was dark outside at that last supper,
while joyful His disciples waited upon the time of Passover,
the Lord Jesus Christ did fetch bowl
while brave Peter did laugh at a joke of John
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1147.
Cruelly People Hanged My God On A Cross (Free Verse Sonnet)

Cruelly people hanged my God on a cross,
Pilate washed his hands as if innocent
from this deed and in sin humanity was caught,
at three pm it was dark night and all the animals were scared,
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1148.
Where We Do Winter Behold (English Sonnet)

(after William Shakespeare)

Where around us sheer winter we do now behold,
like skeletons are the trees with no leaves that hang,
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1149.
Simon From Cyrene (Free Verse Sonnet)

(after Kleinjan (J. R. L. Van Bruggen))

The Romans find a man underway to Golgotha,
Simon from Cyrene, from far away in Africa,
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1150.
It Was Silent And Peaceful (Free Verse Sonnet)

It was silent and peaceful where He did lie in the grave
where God as a human was slaughtered as the Son of God
and He did pay the price for man's iniquity,
did rest on His own creation's Sabbath Command
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