Gert Strydom Poems

At the big old house against the hillock
mother believed that sense she could into us knock
while her Bible she constantly did study
about God taught my brother and me
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As a child I looked at God's heaven on the other side of the blue
while in fear and wonder adults did over a comet argue
as if disaster could leave the earth to be just a speck of dust,
in wonder I looked at the stars in the heaven did in God trust,
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(for Annelize)

I tried our love and all of its ways to define
and of it I wrote from memory's recollection
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(in answer to Dorothy Parker)

To king Arthur I was wedded until his death
and I loved him then sincere as I love him now
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The restless ocean did not expect him,
the winged dragon that did fall down into the water,
that did sink and became a part of the deeper darkness,
where he dreamt to above God have power,
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(for Annelize)

In a world of hardship, calamity and woe
you are in my heart, my blood and my head
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(in answer to Daniel Hugo)

I know that my own Germanic blood
did come to this rough South Africa
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(for Annelize)

I do want to buy you a designer dress
in red, blue, green, black or even white,
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A falling star did draw a long fiery line
where in the night I look at eternity where stars do origin and decline
or in mythology Thor maybe did let his hammer glow
or for Catholics someone did out of purgatory escape and go
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