Gert Strydom Poems

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411.
Your Presence Is A True Delight (Common Measure Octave)

Your presence is a true delight,
just like the summer sun
where I am welcome at your door,
since our love has begun,
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412.
Achilles [2]

To some more a god than man
the hero walks in
with greatness depicted
in every move and stride
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413.
A Level Headed Gaze

I come from another place and time
and did walk as a child bared feet in the marsh
I am from a place that is different from this city
where here people and things are trampled upon
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414.
Insignificant Are The White Clouds That Pass

(after Toon van den Heever)

Insignificant are the white clouds that do pass
as they are driven by strong winds without any solidity
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415.
Out Of Military Boots

Out of military boots
I come moulded to be a different person
and in nature could finally find some serenity
with the hot sun blazing above me
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416.
You Are At My Side Wherever I Do Go (Wreathed Octave)

You are at my side wherever I do go,
in times of woe and of great bliss,
in each kiss of our love I do know
and we do glow in the way that it is,
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417.
What Can I Bring To You (Triolet)

What can I bring to you
in a world where everything is dark?
What can I give to you that are true,
what can I bring to you,
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418.
Far Away In The Blue (Triolet)

As far away as the blue
where the sun touches the hillocks
lies the things that was once true,
as far away as the blue
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419.
It Was An Icy Winter Afternoon (Roundelay)

It was an icy winter afternoon
when I heard a bird crooning a cheery tune
and suddenly although feeling quite old
its song came as barrier against the cold.
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420.
When I Call Your Heart My Home (English Sonnet)

If what we have does surpass life and death,
if nothing could the essence of its presence remove,
if you are part of me and present in every breath,
then eternally it may stay as our own true love,
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