Gert Strydom Poems

(after William Shakespeare)

Where around us sheer winter we do now behold,
like skeletons are the trees with no leaves that hang,
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(after Kleinjan (J. R. L. Van Bruggen))

The Romans find a man underway to Golgotha,
Simon from Cyrene, from far away in Africa,
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It was silent and peaceful where He did lie in the grave
where God as a human was slaughtered as the Son of God
and He did pay the price for man's iniquity,
did rest on His own creation's Sabbath Command
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Where she cried heart rendering, she stood at the grave,
for a moment lingered dumbfounded and did notice that it was empty,
could not comprehend this, did not trust the peace,
as in her heart there now was only love for Him,
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(after William Shakespeare)

Neither nuclear bomb nor weapon of war or earth, sky or sea
but human mortality along with frailty slowly absorbs our power,
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(in answer to Olga Kirsch)

Paint with the own blood of Jesus Christ
the portals of the human heart red,
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Where the ground-squirrel hop up and down
there are guinea fowl in the bush and I look carefully
and again I am a carefree child,
notices a rock-rabbit jumping from rock to rock
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(after Elisabeth Eybers)

My uncles could cut off the skins of apples, limes and oranges
paper-thin from every different peel
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(in answer to William Shakespeare)

My darling's eyes are pleasant as the sun,
like pomegranates her lips are sweet and red,
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(after Totius)

When the morning sun do burn the fog away
two coots do land at the dam,
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