Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

I do want to buy you a designer dress
in red, blue, green, black or even white,
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A falling star did draw a long fiery line
where in the night I look at eternity where stars do origin and decline
or in mythology Thor maybe did let his hammer glow
or for Catholics someone did out of purgatory escape and go
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(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

Like wild wolves the dogs did howl
when the moon hanged bloody red in the sky,
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(for Annelize)

So very much I do long to see you again
to daily live with you in times of gladness
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In the afternoon countless lightning bolts do bash into eternity
when in the summer days rain do fall almost every afternoon
and poems of my memories of Heidelberg do begin
where I smell the blue-white intense air when the thunders roar,
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A long dusty meandering path brings me to the dam
where I walk in and do open a female crab at the bottom,
find a lot of small pink ones that crawl over my hand
and go and sit against the trunk of a shading tree.
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(for Annelize)

Where you wander distant under the same sun
through your long hair blows the evening breeze
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(after Daniel Hugo)

Breyten Breytenbach writes on his cell's wall
and on paper: Help! Where a person feels small.
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For two years I have to bend myself to other's will
and the days in hot pursuit of terrorists remain with me still,
we are at a laughable wage send to war
where life can last for only seconds more,
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(for Annelize)

We do live our lives so very discreet
yet my heart is filled with thoughts of you
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