Gert Strydom Poems

To some more a god than man
the hero walks in
with greatness depicted
in every move and stride
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(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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Sometimes it's as if stars spark in your eyes
as if they glitter green,
sometimes there is something true and pure,
something more whiter than snow,
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The cracking branches as it rushed in
had a shocking kind of thunder to them
and where it entered the swollen river
I heard the rushing water splashing
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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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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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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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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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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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When all rhetoric is gone,
when all of my words
loose their meaning,
even when my poems are gone
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