Poetry Poem by Gert Strydom

(in answer to Fanie Olivier)

Sometimes inspiration comes
from the most paltry thing,
words are stringed into poems
without any superfluous baggage

and sometimes in comes in protest
but totally bloodless
where you put the government and others under stress,
people do become angry

and big-eyed children are taught
to avoid your works, even to avoid you
and sometimes you cannot stop the words,
when freely they come by themselves

when those that do oppress become questionable
even under the new liberated generation.

[Reference: "oproep tot hoër digterlike spesialisasie" (call to higher poetic specialization)by Fanie Olivier.]