Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Where lonely I kneel before You,
You know every word of mine and know everything I do
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

In the twilight the hillocks around him is grey
where the small herdsman do take the cattle to a corral,
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

At the policemen of the lines the fishermen do stare,
under a gazebo they are protected from the sting of the sun
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(for Annelize, after A. G. Vissier in answer to André letoit)

I met you at college
and always you did greet me with a smile,
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

They do appear laughing and joking,
some do hurry to places where brothels do their thing,
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Streets full of office blocks have a greyish hue
where they rise against the cobalt blue,
in the distance it seems as if the factories do burn down
where with smoking stacks they fill the town
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(for Annelize)

Where I stand at the breaking of the new morning
the end of night rolls into the dawning,
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

You ask that I must again turn back with a gesture,
must go away from that which is safe and secure,
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(after C. M. van der Heever)

Over the mountains they come through the wilderness
where murderous they do ride into war
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

Where man perish like ancient gods without adaptability
where he stands at the portals of eternity,
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