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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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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Motorcycling along
the N1 freeway
from Pretoria in the north to Cape Town
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We both lost our loneliness completely
as we were drifting extremely nude,
touching lips was only the prelude
as we were drifting in the endless sea
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Now it is winter when trees are skeleton,
stripped bare and have no more leaves
as if they are lifeless
and the weather is grey as if
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There’s nothing that can stop the sands of time
some lives sublime will face death on a day
nothing can stay, without reason or rhyme
existence does begrime, by destiny swept away;
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When the breeze on the sea and land is strong
do not feel sorrow when I am gone
as if I am the only man, the only one
and when my ashes are spreading among
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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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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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