Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Where it exists in the depth of the heart,
where daily it is of us a part
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Driving my old blue Honda CZ900 motorbike at speed,
suddenly I am like Phaeton when a stone jumps up
and smashes the helmet's visor
and the right lens of my glasses
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When Phaeton, the son of the god of the sun, Helios,
wished as a human to drive the sun-chariot over the sky
Phaeton was far too self-assured, forward and curios
and in vain Helios warned his son that he would die
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(for Annelize)

While daily I do try a living to make
I do claim your heart for my love's sake
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Love has got something
of feelings and a decisions
mended together,
but how do you
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In Brakpan at a time
lived a breaker
build very well
like a young Tarzan,
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I walk right into
the wind that blows softly,
for a meeting
with the dark blue ocean
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When I was a student
I bought a box of chocolates
one evening at a café
to give as a gift
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At times the stretch
to the jumping board
and landing patch
lay magical
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Just outside the window
at the fountain
a place in Tuscany
runs into violet hills
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