Gert Strydom Poems

(for Annelize)

Tonight the stars glitter and the night is full of tranquillity
when thoughts of you do refreshing wash over me,
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(for Annelize)

While it lingers for a short while
sunny is you lovely hot smile
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(for Annelize)

You are the one that I do trust with all my secrets
above all other women you are utter beautiful to me,
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

When as a mere child fatherless I took Your hand,
I do remember: on the pathway of life at my side You did stand
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When I brought forth (Crystalline Poem)

When I brought forth words that were mighty
Your pure voice did sing right through me.
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(for Annelize)

Where lonely I kneel before You,
You know every word of mine and know everything I do
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

In the twilight the hillocks around him is grey
where the small herdsman do take the cattle to a corral,
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

At the policemen of the lines the fishermen do stare,
under a gazebo they are protected from the sting of the sun
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(for Annelize, after A. G. Vissier in answer to André letoit)

I met you at college
and always you did greet me with a smile,
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(after C. M. van den Heever)

They do appear laughing and joking,
some do hurry to places where brothels do their thing,
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