Gert Strydom Poems

They came in the middle of the night
in a huge crowd, almost like a lynching gang
the type who previously had torched,
burned their own alive
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There are carnations in the garden
in colours of ruby red,
pure white and blossom pink
and some pink with deep purple inside
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I. Outnumbered by armour (A reply to William Shakespeare)

Outnumbered by armour
and by men we met the enemy,
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When the Enola Gay on command
dropped her deadly bomb
unleashing moments of hell in Hiroshima
and a nuclear blast went off in destruction
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I saw death come
by way of a machinegun,
I saw death come
quickly or more slowly to some
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Before man the first time
found sheltering,
lit a fire to burn, to cook, to destroy
he was interested in the company
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If we do look at things in history
no kind of rescue comes from history
and that was just another old story.
.
Peace, the government had promised me
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The blue water stretches
as far as visibility allows to see
and there’s fog
rising white before the storm
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A bullet for a Boer
and kill farmer,
kill a white
still rages on from
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Out of the fog
its peaks rose
from ancient times
and it’s flat top
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