Gert Strydom Poems

(in answer to André Letoit)

Every white man is seen as an enemy to the state
(where they do only serve the black multitude)
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(for Annelize, after Matthew Arnold, in answer to Mike Nicol)

Flat like a mirror the sea lies tonight
with only the distant lighthouse's light
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Nature was uneasily silent
as if it was waiting for something to happen,
way back in the distant hills
lightning bashed down
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Shot from a branch of a fig tree
by a BB pellet by the boy
I picked the yellow weaver up
where it was shocked,
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for Annelize, in answer to André Letoit)

To be with you again,
to read the expression in your eyes
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(in answer to André Letoit)

Too innocent I was as a child
to play with a girl's secret place,
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At the dam I am still waiting alone
when all of the other fishermen are gone
the float moves do go under
my body feels cold like stone
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(for Annelize, after Ingrid Jonker)

The fairy-princess whose little lamp does shine
did last night give her heart to me,
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(after A. G. Visser)

At Dingaan's big kraal Ngungunhlovu there are many fires that burn
where all regiments of his impi does gather from all across Zululand,
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(after A. G. Visser)

Centuries back the Son did play in Nazareth,
His days were full of duties and fun
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