Gert Strydom Poems

There are dew drops in your eyes, their green,
that laughs with me that look past all of my masks
that does strange things to me
when your eyes do not waver before mine,
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That our love must be lost,
at a time will have to end
that there is an end to all things,
is something that I find sorrowful and amazing
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When one soul was in both our thoughts,
we were together at the bright blue ocean,
where you joyously did swim,
gave me a passionate kiss, where we did embrace
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You can tell that power oozes out of him,
that this office
is a battleground of victorious meetings,
like a orifice
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(after Guy Butler)

On the sandstone veranda I saw him
withered, old,
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There are thousands that act both selfless and brave,
some feel the planet's agony as they love beyond death,
others labour for what is right and good in what they sense
but with great incompetence man lives his mortal life,
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(after I. D. du Plessis)

At the Buffelkraal farmstead once lived a beautiful girl
near to the Matroosberg Mountain with a crown of golden hair
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Many years back an old pirate
Ort Jan van Hunks lived in Cape Town
and he had gathered enough loot
to live an honest life.
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She has beauty, a kind of perfect grace
and like the night
she has the aspect of clear starry eyes,
the gleaming light
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Nothing I know that is almost like this,
where there's sweet bliss in every kiss
you are very difficult to forget,
since the blessed time when we had first met,
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