Gert Strydom Poems

Today my heart is full of joy
and while being mature I again feel like a boy
with all of the splendours of the world at his feet
as my darling, my beloved, is with me
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In anger some religious officials and Roman soldiers came
to arrest Him and called out His name
when in great apprehension and fear
Peter did draw his sword and chopped off Malcus's ear
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On the day of my birth
I am with my own love
and everything on earth
or existing in the heaven above
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Where this world is but a grain of sand
in the enormity of endless space
while man struggles in a eternal race
to be more to achieve, to really live,
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(after George Gordon, Lord Byron)

She has a kind of inner glow
that is reflected in her eyes
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An orange-red sickle moon hangs low
above the light speckled darkened land
while all of the neighbourhood is asleep
and thoughts do into my mind creep
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Lord, only in Your footsteps there is life for me
and Your life sets me free from all of my iniquity
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They were tough men who believed in God
who used the holy word and the rod,
ancestors from Dutch and French Huguenot stock,
farmed with vineyards and livestock,
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