Gert Strydom Poems

Some people believe
that in everyone’s heart, blood and body
there is a monster
and Raka unaware is present
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Night was coming
with a piercing huge orange sun
breaking through
white and black clouds
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Camouflaged in the veldt,
with its khaki colour
melting into the rocks and grass
its flicking tongue caught my eye,
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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 young men, boys just out of school,
working men with university degrees
far too clever to be any anyone’s fool
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While your cigarette spirals into the air
you breasts against me
talk in an own language
making impressions with their form and fashion
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Farms are burned down to the ground
and cattle slaughter just there in the fields,
while a super power forces women and children
into concentration camps to kill them there.
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Introduction

In the kaki coloured tent in Umbilo he writes
his life’s story while women, children and babies are dying,
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I. I did not expect this early spring

I did not expect that after this severe winter
that destroyed flowers, grass and plants
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In the morning we are awakening
to the rising sun as a shining thing,
during the year seasons come and they go;
while the real depths of love we do not know.
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