Gert Strydom Poems

Johnny surfed on the waves,
till on the day,
that he got his call up papers.
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I placed a coin
upon a railway track
while training at Klipdrift army camp
to go to war.
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One day in jail
and the next
on the throne,
and unlike Joseph,
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The wind and winter bites piercing
and I want to lie closer to you
and outside everything is quiet.
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I kissed a girl
and something more was there,
than the touch of lips
and something of her soul
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I saw death take her toll
and friends and enemy soldiers fall
and maybe they all went
to a much better place to be.
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You email a photograph
of a hand holding a baby
and surely all of us,
are in the hand of the Almighty.
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If I could know for what reason
the whys and wherefores happen
and could know the reasons
behind all things,
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In Heidelberg we stayed in a white house
against the ranges
and there were always
sweet yellow corn that Mom had planted
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In the mornings I see Jane passing
and how she walks away,
in the street
and gets smaller and smaller in the distance
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