Gert Strydom Poems

You are the girl who is fair,
or sometimes you hair is dark or tinted.
You are the one in whom I do find bliss,
the one that fiercely beats in my blood.
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(After William Shakespeare)

Take away the separation and its pain
with kisses and bliss that comes again,
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(after S. J. Pretorius)

Thank you that You do give words to me to share with others
and I am also grateful for life and every small and big blessing
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Governments have used and abused me as they came
the oppression of both white and black are all the same,
while sacrifices I was forced to make and action to take
where they acted within and without God's mighty name,
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(after R. K. Belcher)

At a very large church and employment buro
in Brakpan I came across a holy Dan
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The pastor drives with his shiny Mercedes in at the gate
and long before he stops I know the collection cannot wait
because the boot opens before he comes around the corner
and it does his true intentions indicate.
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(After Piet van Rooyen, for Daleen on her birthday)

My Love, my barefooted girl
you do bewitch me and you do make me blind,
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(for Daleen on her birthday)

As my greatest asset and true love I do you deem
where you do bring me happiness and esteem
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Through the woods we both went,
together time to spent,
as we walked in the hills
we saw the deep blue sea
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(after Lina Spies)

In living out Kahlil Gibran's verses I will recognize you
and in all of the loveliest small things you do
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