Gert Strydom Poems

Could I find you in every enchanting dream,
flowing through my life like a meandering stream
there would be a kind of bright tranquillity
while constantly you were bringing happiness to me
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When that moment do come
you do fold open like a flower,
when at your feet your clothes do fall
and it feels, as we are alone in the universe
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The canon shots in Tchaikovsky's 1812 overture
tells me that a war of freedom
does rage unstoppable
where soldiers do drive the forces of Napoleon
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The words that I do leave
will like the paper
on which it is printed out
at a time become yellow and dull,
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restrains us from the animal instinct,
the cruel, dominating overpowering thing
and unlike the lion, leopard or eagle
that has to destroy to live
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Every wind carries memories of the past,
carries leaves, minute pebbles of dust
and sometimes feathers
reminding of places where it was,
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While towers do reach for heaven,
while from ancient times man
tries to escape from this world
and the misery that threatens here
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There are words people have said
that does try to destroy my integrity
and I do have the power to take action,
to reciprocate and to destroy,
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In the suburbs daily the houses
are without their residents
while the maid washes and do the ironing,
at times do prepare the supper,
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(after Sipho Sepamla)

Like leaves falling in the autumn
and scratching are swished by the wind
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