Gert Strydom Poems

In your green-brown eyes I see a tender light
a glance that lingers just for a single moment,
with your pupils much darker than midnight,
with golden flecks sparkling like an ornament.
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(in answer to Fanie Olivier)

My old blue motorbike roars up the hill
when I bring my heart and a pumpkin as presents,
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(in answer to Ingrid Jonker)

In the eyes and on the face of each woman
memories come of our times together,
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No matter how destiny measures life out,
however circumstance in our days are,
even if at times you do cry and shout
when from your loving presence I am far,
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You are my all season girl and wife
who flowers constantly more lovely than spring,
the one who constantly leaves me speechless with her love,
the one who I trust with everything in my heart.
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(in answer to Anne Bradstreet)

If ever a man knew with every feeling and sense
that he was adored, trusted, respected sincerely
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(in answer to N.P. van Wyk Louw)

Where I in all my own things
stand naked before Your glance and insight
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Eagerly I want to bring happiness to you,
write verses about love in sincerity
and you are in my head, soul, hart and body,
between us there is much more than just emotion.
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In struggle, heartache and tranquility,
through a life of righteousness and sin
my best and worst days you do enter in
and with you I am bound and I am free.
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(for Daleen)

I come to you during the silence of tonight
to tell you how very dear you are to me
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