Gert Strydom Poems

In its age old sinful writing
as far as he goes,
his marks are carved into the sand
which he leaves just where he goes,
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I ask that You do hold Your hand daily over me
where I string through the streets of the city behind other cars,
when minibus taxis try to run me off the road
and angry motorists do hang out of windows to curse,
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(after Eugene Marais)

Leafless like skeletons stand trees
everywhere in a multitude filling the veldt,
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(for Annelize)

In a night where thunder-flashes do come down
you are astonished with this kind of weather in the Cape,
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In the sea of life we are blessed with individuality
and yet in all of this we yearn for company
for someone to love, to trust and admire
as to our same-self we are set with a personality
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(In answer to A. G. Visser)

Speechless is creation
when weeds do luxuriant usurp it,
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(for Annelize)

I have been captured in you
and when I do miss you with pain,
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When the drizzling rain falls softly outside
the small redbreast goes mad,
it does dance joyfully up and down on the gate
where for the God of the universe
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When the grey clouds open at a place
there hangs a giant bright rainbow
very magnificent up high
where clouds do cover the whole heaven,
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(for Annelize)

I remember us at a time together at the Spur restaurant
at a candle with your eyes big and your nose lifted in spirit
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