Gert Strydom Poems

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If I could go back in time to a hill
where a rough cross stands
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There’s a newspaper which the wind blows,
round and round
until it hits against me.
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In Sweden people today celebrate
a pagan feast
on the midsummer day
and snaps and beer,
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You are so fine on me as light on glass.
and before I think,
you know where my thoughts are going.
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What joy I see in faces,
but it’s not in my heart
and I have not a part
of the December summer fun.
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The fog is so low
that it looks as if,
it’s coming from the ground.
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At Camps bay the wind is blowing
and the waves leap and thrust
against the jetty,
where my eyes
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It was somewhere in July
that I first met you.
and that winters day,
felt like summer to me.
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How soft and firm and hot and wet
your lips are at times
and how tender and unstoppable,
is the passion
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I knew Shell-shocked troops,
who were battle hardened
and who struggled between
the sense and senselessness of killing.
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