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Gert Strydom
Gert Strydom
(03 April 1964 / Johannesburg, South Africa)
Gert Strydom Poems
| 5001. | At A Restaurant | 6/17/2009 |
| 5002. | On The Island | 4/18/2011 |
| 5003. | Flickering The Flame Of A Candle Burns | 9/11/2014 |
| 5004. | The Rugby Player | 12/2/2010 |
| 5005. | Sonnets To Someone Special | 6/28/2010 |
| 5006. | Gentling A Wildcat | 9/22/2009 |
| 5007. | It Was The Way You Were (Terzanelle) | 7/27/2010 |
| 5008. | Water (Acrostic) | 3/22/2012 |
| 5009. | Nightmares (English Sonnet) | 11/21/2011 |
| 5010. | Living In A World Of Our Own | 2/28/2011 |
| 5011. | An Abandoned Bundle (In Answer To Mbuyiseni Oswald Mtshali) | 7/7/2011 |
| 5012. | I Love You (Villanelle) | 10/2/2012 |
| 5013. | Being Bilingual | 4/13/2010 |
| 5014. | “where Have All The Soldiers Gone? Gone To Graveyards Every One” | 5/4/2010 |
| 5015. | A Flower For The Night | 6/2/2010 |
| 5016. | Life[2] | 12/4/2009 |
| 5017. | At Times Love Has Visited Me | 12/3/2016 |
| 5018. | Space Haiku’s | 4/26/2011 |
| 5019. | But Then I Met You | 6/2/2009 |
| 5020. | Angel Of The Morning Light | 6/4/2009 |
| 5021. | Invictus (A Reply To William Ernest Henley) | 12/2/2009 |
Best Poem of Gert Strydom
Invictus (A Reply To William Ernest Henley)
While the night stretch black over me
and in the dark sky I see countless lights
burning high,
I thank the God that made me free
to choose which light to follow as a guide.
In dark circumstance and whatever fate brings,
destiny and chance do not conquer
and I still rise wiser
to life and its things
and my will remains free
to decide where my words
and actions belong
whether they are right or wrong
and to no human I bend a knee
and in all things I only answer to Him
who Captain’s me.
[References: Invictus by William Ernest ...
Fatherland
I am no longer
from you,
because you have
discarded me.
When I was a boy
you forced me,
to go to war.
