Gert Strydom Poems

You wanted to go to the beach
at the Strand
and walk the dog,
which didn’t accompany us then
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I was in residence in Salisbury house
at the private university
lying at the foot
of Helderberg mountain
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That house in Brackenfell
had new furniture,
a wine red Kameel lounge suite,
a solid wood dining room table,
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All in her splendor
my love went into the world,
and the new morning.
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I am the one to whom animals flock,
dogs, cats and every tame dove
as if bewitched by the midnight clock,
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Far from the place of my birth
life has driven me
as a wanderer upon this earth
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The substance of my self remain
in every speck of dignity,
in humility and pain,
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I know that I have
never have been as alone
as at the Strand
that December holiday.
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I know that I have
never have been as alone
as at the Strand
that December holiday.
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You had just left me
and I had relocated from Bellville
near Cape Town
to Centurion at Pretoria
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