Gert Strydom Poems

Weavers do twitter, warblers chirp and doves coo
and the summer overflows with joy
but for the cat that do try to murder the birds
where from the branches of the fig tree the birds peep
...

Weavers do twitter, warblers chirp and doves coo
and the summer overflows with joy
but for the cat that do try to murder the birds
where from the branches of the fig tree the birds peep
...

Weavers do twitter, warblers chirp and doves coo
and the summer overflows with joy
but for the cat that do try to murder the birds
where from the branches of the fig tree the birds peep
...

(for Annelize)

The sheets retains something of your smell
and the darkness is now overpowering
...

Blind the Philistines did lead Samson up and down
and while they made a mockery of him
the Lord God had looked down with pity
and Samson did touch the pillars
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(in answer to C. M. van den Heever)

As a mighty hunter of man
he and his seductive pretty wife
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(for Annelize)

When I did awake this morning
the first twilight did fall through the window,
...

I saw the stars, star-clusters, nebulas and pulsars in the night
planets, moons, comets and the asteroids in their glittering-play
and wanted to tell about the great unnamed secrets of God,
the water-masses of oceans and rivers did tell about omnipotence,
...

(for Annelize)

In those late Cape summer afternoons when at seven
the sun did still hang high and the day was bright,
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