When There Is Nothing More
When there is nothing more
to remember you by,
when you fade away
and disappear faceless,
when reality
wants to vaporise
then the night folds cold around me.
poem by Gert Strydom
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In The Vastness Of The Desert
In the vastness of the desert
the landscape disappears in the distance,
while the sun roasts everything,
while continually its shines bright and mercilessly.
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Daily Birds And Insects Do Sing (Persian / Rubiyat Quatrain)
Daily birds and insects do sing
while the greatness of spring is happening
and at this time I do love you true,
even if destiny does our lives toss and fling.
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There Are Times [2]
There are times when the sky is so blue
that it's almost a touchable living thing
when birds do constantly praises sing
and I am blessed in all the things I do.
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God and Man (Double Tetractys)
All
things are
fleeting and
evanescent,
only God is eternal, immortal
while he visits us who merely mortal
like gods live rich,
arrogant,
selfish,
spoilt.
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To some people our love is a mystery
To some people our love is a mystery,
far too suddenly to them our love came
but to you and me it took a life-time;
from the first meeting we were not the same.
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Stretching summer (sijo)
There must be a kind of way to make this summer stretch out
pulling it longer, as the shadows on the trees
that the time with my love can linger into a lifetime.
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You do bring light
You bring light in a dark world,
even there where the might storm winds blow,
You draw Your route in the darkness,
while You charge lives with your own fervour.
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I am truly glad
I am truly glad
as you like the greatest gift
that the Lord bestows
have come to be with me
as my companion, love and friend
and blessed is the time that we spent.
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I'd Rather Give All Of My Love (Persian Quatrain) (In Reply To Dorothy Parker)
I'd rather give all of my love and give it well
and have a heartbreaking story to tell
than act selfish, thin and wise
and land in the pits of another kind of hell.
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