Gert Strydom Poems

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1381.
Your Inner Thoughts Do In Your Lovely Eyes Gleam

This morning the sky is serenely turquoise
while you act with liberty and independence,
smile at me lovely full of self-confidence
and along with you my heart do rejoice.
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1382.
With These Events (Free Verse Sonnet)

With these events your love become essential to me
where our days and nights suddenly are missing to me,
where everything is clear but nothing makes life simple
and sometimes my fears and even wishes feel superfluous
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1383.
You Come To Me

You come to me during my impotence,
bravely face any kind of unsure resistance
with loving lingering enchanting persistence.
Serving a holy God full of omnipotence
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1384.
Because You Do Call Me Your Darling (Free Verse Sonnet)

My candle burns tonight only for you
as you do take me as your darling
while friends do estrange themselves from me,
where you do still believe in me and trust me,
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1385.
In All The Things In Life (Sicilian Sonnet)

In all the things in life I do experience
it's touched by the whims of uncanny fate,
while it acts as if its impact cannot wait
but in my days you do make the deference
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1386.
Percipient

(in answer to Thomas Hardy)
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My Lord, I come to you in my iniquity
look at things that no mortal man did see,
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1387.
Apocrypha: Psalm 45 (Refrain Stanza)

Daily I beg lead me in Your omnipotent saving light
do not hide Your holy face from me during this night,
days of darkness hang like a thick blanket over me
and nowhere I can go without Your great mercy,
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1388.
During The South African Border / Bush War: Operation Hooper

With G-5 guns firing up to two hundred shells in support
and hitting approaching enemy targets form miles away
facing a enemy T55-tank it felt as if it was the Judgement Day,
the Ratel-90 had to halt to fire its gun, shook as it did report,
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1389.
Daring Jump

In the early morning while the sun
does climb with its first rays over the horizon
the night is still dark and streched out
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1390.

(in answer to Pieter W. Grobbelaar)

During these days I do feel far past just happy
when I notice you with your pretty dress,
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