Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize, after Dorothy Parker)

I know a bloom that is pure pink and sometimes white
and it does blossom fragrantly during the dark night
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

I prince Abadin Tadia Tjoessoep, high-priest, Pangéran, do here swear
where I do bare witness over God's wondrous salvation and His care:
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

The fortress of sultan Rameer in Shalimar gleams red as fire
and beautiful is the women that do Ali desire,
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(for Annelize, after Dorothy Parker)

When you my love, are so far from me away
at my window sing the flock of many birds
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(for Annelize)

To you I give blood-red poppies
that carries my love before they do wither
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(for Annelize)

Tonight our love feels centuries old
as if some aeons did between us pass
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(for Annelize)

Many times I wondered if love is a thing from heaven or from hell
where of the impact, the wonder and the woes I can as a witness tell
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

For three days Nonkala works alone under the summer sun
and she would have followed her husband if she could
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

For years there is great drought and famine
and almost the last of the wild antelope has died
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(for Annelize)

More than for any other for you I do care
and a love so selfless and pure as this is rare
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