Gert Strydom Poems

(after Lina Spies)

I wish like with Mary You could stand next to me,
could write words that do jerk a church organization to black silence,
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(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)

In longing to give the best that we have and are
we go with faith, hope and great trust,
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(for Annelize, after Elisabeth Eybers)
I
Where this loneliness do linger with me,
you I do really want to see
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I
At first light your knocking and twittering
do awake me while to God you do sing
like a joyous lively small spirit
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(for Annelize)

You do me truly from the depth of your heart know
and still in live some things do never again return:
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I
In the caves with sandstone walls full of paintings there is quietness
where African historians and shamans do worship, life and culture express
it brings a person back to a primitive uncivilized happy time
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

I
At a bright Voortrekker fire at Blauwkrans
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(after C. J. Langenhoven)

I
At a bright Voortrekker fire at Blauwkrans
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(in answer to Elisabeth Eybers)

I cannot and do not want to forget you
and tonight the night is vast around me,
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