Gert Strydom Poems

Like a goddess you appear
with strings of falling auburn hair,
the sun sparkling in your golden eyes,
a joyful smile upon your lips,
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You are very pretty
and the sun rising over the horizon
loves you,
while his red rays folds open.
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With big brown eyes
she watches him
where he is sitting
right opposite her
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In this distant country
everyone wants to find
An own place in the sun,
and some people want to use force
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When the small death folds
around us, both of us sweat
and die together
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The violent dispossession of farms
in Zimbabwe
is seen by some people as lawlessness (1)
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(After N. P. van Wyk Louw)

In the early evening
you were luring right against me
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When the front door does close behind you
and the house awaits me without a sound
when some of the furniture is missing
and does leave open space and no children do laugh
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With all of my dreams
I did love you,
do remember how you eyes look,
can gleam of happiness
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I see him doing carpentry,
smoothing a piece of hard wood with a plane,
clamped on a big old vice
before cutting it, sawing it off
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