Gert Strydom Poems

(In answer to D. J. Opperman)

At the agriculture co-operation's shop the farmers did believe the angel
where on the high-veldt they were farming near to each other,
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It's strange how people around Christmas
and New Year does long for company,
long for the star of God to hang over them,
do again dust of the Bible and read the ancient story
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(in answer to André Letoit)

I did wonder how a white Christmas
with candles, trees and icy chilliness would be,
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I see your face reflected
in the window of the car
where it's raining and we are driving for hours
and big-eyed you look while the rain do splash down,
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Like every year the birthday of Jesus is being sold out,
people die celebrate Christmas and for the New Year they do have hope
but in all of this some are lonely and poor
while other people go from sale to sale,
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The children are overwhelmed with happiness
as the sled of Father Christmas has landed,
some do press into the queue
at Pick n Pay and shake him by the hand,
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(for Annelize)

In 1985 it was whole year summer
when you came into my life
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Has society at large come to the place
where it does not anymore want to face
the way that absolute truth tells how life is
and is their in our lives and forums not a place
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Some poems, which are only thoughts, do fade away
if you do not immediately write them down,
others do keep gnawing at your thoughts
and they do drive you mad and sweep you along
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(after Etienne van Heerden)

The ocean lies flat like a mirror
without any stream or surging swell around me,
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