Haiku's Of Love And Longing Poem by Gert Strydom

(for Annelize)

I do now live on
with the silent memory
and I am empty.

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You do remember
how intense that time was
in your shiny eye.


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I want you again
my tongue is painful dumbstruck
as if words do lock.

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On memory I
butter my toast with your jam,
do swallow a bit.

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My whole life caves in
years and long decades are gone,
like the blue thunder.

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My finger do touch
the depth of you lovely heart
and I am blinded.

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Your breath do twinkle
the sweet words over the phone
if silence comes.