Gert Strydom, 17 october 2012
Lord touch our eyes to see
in every plant the flower
that it brings,
in winter the rest
before the spring
that is coming,
in steely grey clouds
the rain that quenches
the thirst of everything living
and beyond all of this
to know from where
all good things come
and that unseen
Your servants dwell
among men ever helping,
protecting and spreading Your love.
Gert Strydom, 17 october 2012
From the very creation as a answer to all men
God was present on each day
sheltering us against each omen
while moving in His secret way
and now in this age He is present still
and unseen He does His works perform
and with a unknown mysterious skill
He constantly shelters against destiny’s storm
and whatever road we do take,
even if we do head to a life of dread,
His miracles He does make
as He constantly walks ahead
and in our greatest incompetence
still merciful is His love and providence.
Gert Strydom, 17 october 2012
Dear Lord, even if my destruction is due
I still do come on my knees to you
and do beg for grace and mercy,
to make my life and my heart knew.
Gert Strydom, 16 october 2012
When early in the morning you smile at me
there are parts of eternity that shatters
in into my life,
and I see a new day beginning
with I share in part with you,
when moments linger for a long time
as if a wonderful day
stretches into eternity
and sometimes I do wonder
why my life was for so long
empty of you?
Gert Strydom, 16 october 2012
When all rhetoric is gone,
when all of my words
loose their meaning,
even when my poems are gone
then only the glance
my eyes remain
that says how much I love you
Gert Strydom, 15 october 2012
(with apologies to Roger Woddis)
If I had my way with communist men
I’d bath them all in oil,
I’d fill a pot full of tea with every vitamin
and make it boil
and serve it to every terrorist
even those that shelter him
and if I were a moralist
I would anoint every limb.
Fanatics are a civil-breed in great need
who dependent men gather for fun;
who beg them until they bleed,
yes, every single one, every daughter and son
and they probably go abroad
to do the things they are at,
but instead I love my cat
and not like that.
For we should love the human mind
as wisdom lead us to,
and those that don’t are probably blind
or somewhere behind
and cannot see either black or blue;
who probably eat and do not pay the bill
and listen to the restaurant’s proprietor shriek
and beg, rant and demand until
they pay the other week or he turn the cheek.
[Reference: “Down With Fanatics!” By Roger Woddis.]
Gert Strydom, 15 october 2012
The words of an inspector became meaningless
as if he was all along talking rubbish and turned clueless
when he heard the music teacher fart
and without excuse had a attack of the heart
and his droll stories couldn’t amuse or bless, became nothingness.
Gert Strydom, 15 october 2012
Many professionals and people in the middle class
wait for their days to pass
to go under cover of the night
to live their lives over, to get their delight
at home where there’s nothing that harass.
Gert Strydom, 12 october 2012
On a sunny hot summer day
your cheeks did in rosebuds glow
the last blossoms of spring was swept away
and fruit trees did their bounty show
a mere glance was full of romance
and a warm light was in your golden eyes,
a simple brilliant smile did your face enhance
and I knew that true beauty lies
hidden deep in the heart, that in you
I have found someone that is really kind
and that whatever I say or do
somehow my presence fills your mind
while my heart does in yours dwell
which does in kindness and love excel.
Gert Strydom, 10 october 2012
(after Lord George Gordon Byron)
The soft glowing radiance of her face
with hair tumbling down in a auburn tress
brings to her a unnamed kind of grace,
her thoughts do only loveliness express
as she walks with a kind of innocence
and when I meet the glance of her dear eyes
in them I can find no kind of offence,
any self-centeredness, her expressions denies,
they twinkle like the sun, like starry skies.
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