Gert Strydom Poems

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711.
There Are Few Things In Life

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There are few things in life
that will equate,
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712.
I Bind Long Blackwood Poles

I bind long Blackwood poles
with a blue pair of pliers and binding wire
between green palisades
and cut it with a old pruning scissor
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713.
I Wonder How Far

I wonder how far
our relationship
in your heart is over,
when I still get nice kisses
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714.
Now In Me Only The Longing Does Remain

In my head your last smile lingers
where it did come from your heart and soul
at a time when you regarded me as your own husband,
and I knew what things held meaning to you.
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715.
I Live In The Hardship That Your Actions Brought

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The spring-rain is falling tonight,
the smell of wet ground is in the air,
thunder roars with its blue-white light
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716.
That We Truly Will Be A Husband And Wife

My Lord, I come to You in Your omnipotence,
You know how things are between my wife and I,
how I miss her during the day and night,
that I do not know what to expect from her,
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717.
With You

(After John Clare)
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With you I go to bed and do awake
but alone I am and you are not here
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718.
In Me Remains The Longing For You

Outside the flowers in garden and the lawn
are drenched from all the rain
and the water gathers in puddle to puddle
while sheets of fog fades everything.
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719.
Although Perfect Images Come To My Mind (English Sonnet)

A slight breeze stirred through the new green grass
that sprouted after the first spring showers,
time did far too quickly in the veldt pass
while we both were looking for small flowers,
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720.
With Detecting-Sight I Want To Look

From the right way I must not deviate,
in the bright day it's night to me:
in my soul a groan, m my spirit lamentation
while you do evade me day by day.
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