Gert Strydom Poems

'my Father, if it is possible, let this cup pass
from me. Yet not what I want but what You want.' Matthew 26: 39

'My Father, if this cup cannot go away unless I
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'You belong to your father the devil, and want to
carry out desires of your father. He was a murderer
from the beginning and has never stood for truth,
since there is no truth in him. Whenever he tells a
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Inside Bahkmut at a much closer glance
there are tank-barriers at each cross-road,
in a decimated landscape where humans abode,
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Sometimes the Lord expects a person to hope and trust,
even if it seems as if everything is out of control, as if nothing can stop calamity,
where others despise God as if He does not exist, to still honour Him,
to have trust almost past every human ability,
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In a Zoom meeting with Patriarch Kirill Pope
Francis said: 'Brother, we are not clerics
of the state.' He added that 'the patriarch
cannot transform himself into Putin's altar boy.'
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'Jesus answered them, 'See to it that no one deceives you, because many will come in My name and say, 'I am the Messiah, ' and they will deceive many people. You will hear of wars and rumours of wars, but see to it that you are not alarmed. Such things must happen but the end us still to come. Nation will rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom. Matthew 24: 4-13


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When lies come from a blonde Hollywood-star:
that Afrikaners do not Afrikaans speak;
as if despised we and our language are weak,
on a sacred thing, that American has gone too far.
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In the only part of the Kharkiv Oblast
where still some Russians remain,
against them Ukraine do slowly gain
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In the Kharkiv Oblast at Svatove Russia deduce
that they can stop Ukraine with Dragon-tooth barricades,
think that gaining here will bring some accolades,
to attack Krasnohorivka and Orivka Russia choose,
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At eighteen I was called-up to the military,
into the SADF, for two years of compulsory service
and hard and great times it had been for me,
during the time of the Border / Bush-war.
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