Gert Strydom Poems

It was early on a winter morning in the twilight
in the hour before the sun lights up the world,

but unlike most winter mornings near to Cape Town
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Like a delta in a river
you do split away from me,
our lives are spread out from each other
from the first morning light
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While I am busy reading a book,
the world does fade away
not in the context of the words
but sleep does take me away
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Amid chaos and catastrophe
the Roman Catholic Pope will try
to bring a kind of human peace to the world
but according to the Bible
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Amid chaos and catastrophe
the Roman Catholic Pope will try
to bring a kind of human peace to the world
but according to the Bible
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Brightly covered in yellow and black
with patches on your wings
you do land on the mown lawn
do peck here and there
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I sit up high in the cherry tree,
with my black eyes sharp
watching everything that is moving below
and of everything's action and inaction I do know.
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Yesterday shots were fired
at the school of the children
while they were waiting on the school bus
and one of the parents were attacked
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It's strange that some people
as adults
are still puerile
and do strange things,
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The fuse of time comes to its limit
as like in a sandglass the last grains drop
almost one by tiny one until they are all gone
and life leaves the body, following the demands
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