Gert Strydom Poems

Against the city of Damascus
it is written:
"When the evening arrives,
watch out - sudden terror!
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Cape Town, city of my great joy and pain,
for many decades from you I have been away
but I want to return back to your beauty,
learn more about another kind of life,
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You are the bread and wine,
constantly You are here in my company
and sometimes I find poor broken people on the street.
I cannot just leave them to mere mercy.
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(in answer to I. D. du Plessis)

Where now I still do love you,
I cannot fabricate my love for you
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Your face by nature perfectly painted
is a backdrop for your eyes and passion,
where in love you are to me acquainted,
do follow your distinct kind of fashion,
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Where Russia has obliterated Mariupol
by pounding it into dust,
with continuing shelling by howitzers,
missiles and rockets
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Shadows throw enclaves the street full,
the wind rustles through bougainvilleas with thorns,
in the distance neon-lights gleam on the city's towers
and for the bright moon a dog howls and barks madly,
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On 17 June 2022 Mikhail Muzintsev,
head of the National Defence Control
Centre of the Russian Federation said:
'since the invasion 307423 children
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Early this morning it was not yet six o'clock
when you returned to me, did my heart unlock,
and your small footsteps ran right through it
while the night fled for the crowing of a cock.
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After receiving the first of the upgraded
Su-34M fighter-bombers during June,
close to Alvhevsk Russia the Ukraine aided,
when a missile did its sights to the jet tune,
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