Gert Strydom Poems

You say that I can stand against every stormy wind
when in an embrace I do your arms around my neck find,

can stand when the wolves outside begin to blow
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I had the notion that on the journey of life
you would accompany me
but then destiny came with its own strive
where it shook our tranquillity
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(in answer to M. M. Walters)

I. God's love does stand firm
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(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

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The sun burns ultraviolet
for miles do pierce the ocean's navy-blue,
where I have got a picture of your brown suntanned body
and today I do remember that summer so very clearly.
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(after Stephen Watson)

Afterwards we both were dazed on a natural high,
where your lovely body did cling to mine
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(in answer to Marlene van Niekerk)

I have got a place where the sun burns bright
where you do hold me intimate against you as if no new tomorrow will come
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(in answer to Percy Bysshe Shelley)

When the vase lies in pieces shattered
and the flowers in it is withered dead,
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When at night in the heaven I look at the stars
your words do sound caressing in my ear
and I realise again that I do not deserve you
while constantly wonderfully you do charm me.
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