Gert Strydom Poems

Throughout all the seasons of my life
my love burns like a flame in the snow
where years pass with you as my wife
and in a modern age we do come and go,
...

(after Theunis Engelbrecht)

Out of love I will build you a house of blue-rock
in the grassy plains of the valleys of my heart,
...

(in answer to Stephan Bouwer)

You now lie with an arm intimate over me,
your snoring sounds as if you purr next to me
...

(in answer to D. J. Opperman)

To you who after years I do know intimate and thoroughly
I come with my ideals and also all of my dreams,
...

It was at a time
where you had
to wear a uniform to school,
had to cut your hair
...

After the rain
the air is full of swallows
swishing up and down
hanging in it
...

I am trying to get a job
at Springs
and wonder why people live here
away from Johannesburg
...

Every day rain falls down
from the overcast grey sky
and lightning bolts
flash blue white
...

A young girl and an old man
walk down steps
to the stretch
that the beach at Houtbay
...

I see a ship
passing beyond the breakers
white on the top
and red at the bottom
...