Gert Strydom Poems

Like in a dream the yesterdays are gone
and today You, my Lord, do straighten my ways
where only You do know what waits in the new tomorrow,
where You have already provided everything
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Only You do know the treasure chamber of the snow, hail and rain,
in the unseen dynamic You do remain with love the One
where all of this tells something of a God that is attentive,
You have set seasons and the rotation of their cycles,
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Together you and I do the world tonight view
where lovely is this evening like none other
while with you I want feelings or love to renew.
To some people this night may be just another
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(after Vincent van der Westhuizen)

From being in love and love at first you wanted to know nothing
but with open arms you waited on me to come to you,
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It seems no more can our true love further increase
where its lovely ways and impact will never die,
while our desires for each other will not decrease
the time does in years past us and far too quickly fly,
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(in answer to Cas Vos)

Where you notice the impressions and colour of my eyes
you do realise that we are one in flesh and spirit,
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(after Walt Whitman)

I remember a transparent sunny summer day,
where on that particular early twilight morning
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(in answer to Louis Janse Van Vuuren)

Out of the bath you walked into my arms,
we had an intimate conversation,
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Deep in my thoughts I did remember you
every smile, every bit of laughter and the sound of your voice,
I tried to keep you deep in the places of my memory
and with sincere love my heart did beat.
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Happy and lovely you are in the first morning light,
do walk picture perfect in to the realm of the eye
to female lines and curves you do bring bliss to sight,
as if in you the blueprint of grandmother Eve does lie
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