Gert Strydom Poems

Just where you do go you will find it,
outside in the garden between potted plants,
in the sun and weather and wind,
in the kopje between the rocks in the hillock,
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With sunrise many dismayed birds do wake me
where they do get me immediately at a window,
and through the window in the apple tree I notice the snake.
For it the birds are utterly angry and scared
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(for Annelize)

I can measure you to no other woman,
do not want to, as you are very special
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(for Annelize, after Vernie Plaatjies)

With thunderbolt upon thunderbolt
the rain falls with sun in this day,
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(for Annelize, after Daniel Hugo)

I have lost you, my love
with decades of years now between us.
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(for Annelize, after Olga Kirsch)

Sometimes when I walk down the lane home
children do play hop-scotch were they are triple-trampling
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(in answer to André Letoit)

A part of the world is covered by darkness,
high above me the torches of God do burn,
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(after Luis de Camões, Roy Campbell and in answer to André Letoit)

Late at night I am astonished
when a sudden stormy wind does rise,
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(for Annelize, after André Letoit)

When I do look deep into your eyes
then I do truly know how love does look,
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(in answer to André Letoit)

I do want to be brilliant and have conception of things
that people do not know that exist,
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