Gert Strydom Poems

I had been to this sea sometime before
where water stretch out beyond from the bay,
it had been on a tranquil summer day,
I had been to this sea sometime before
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There was a farmer's wife, who was afraid
every day,
was driven wild with unmentioned fear;
always away
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With you somewhat unfamiliar, your smile goes
through all the barriers of my self-preservation,
infatuation surrounds me with great power.
with you somewhat unfamiliar,
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We were ignorant, loved each other,
as we were young
and just lived for the very moment,
we did belong
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(after Ernest Dowson)

It felt like yesterday but was many years ago,
you loved me still;
your smile, your lips, your sighs and promises
did my heart fill;
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(after Sir Philip Sidney)

Once huge church bells did ring at our wedding,
but love is gone,
as a plague its infected, by your whims has spread;
another one
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(after Sir Thomas Wyatt)

She flees from me in her iniquity,
are very wild
as if I have brought her some kind of harm,
but only mild
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Whispering softly, sometimes indistinct
as vague as sleep
a voice keeps calling, as if it’s drawing
from the dark deep;
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My redeemer, advocate and father
and my true friend
walks every day through trouble at my side.
When I am spend,
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May the presence of God be between us
in all our love,
to bring it to a new selfless fullness,
to then remove
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