Gert Strydom Poems

(after Totius)

When my Lord, I look up into the night sky
and I notice the Southern Cross above me,
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(in answer to Kleinjan (J. R. L. Van Bruggen))

Silently you did lie against me in the night,
in the silence said very little,
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(after S. J. Pretorius)

He knows the glances on faces well,
do know about pain, fear and insanity from very near,
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(after Totius)

Even if I am loss in the depth of darkness
still Your love and mercy are allotted to me,
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(after George Wither)

Closed are you sunny radiant lovely eyes
where next to me you lie and I look in awe,
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

I
At Rietfontein when in the spring the pear, peach and apricot do blossom,
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(after Totius)

Where with childish faith I do look upon You,
it is You keep me against Your breast true,
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You climb flop into my dreams,
are in the end and in the beginning,
serious is the situation that I have with you
as nothing of it is fabricated.
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(in answer to S. J. Pretorius)

At a time far past lovely unsightly she did become old,
where she is drinking coffee deep in the concrete-jungle,
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Sometimes in the silence of a tranquil night,
it comes to me that You do determine each wonderful day,
I notice the redbreast and the weaver that do frolic,
how doves do in peace drink rainwater from Your hand,
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