<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398209" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>I Am From Heidelberg With Its Sugar Bush Hillocks</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">I am from Heidelberg with its sugar bush hillocks<br>and cannot remove the memories<br>from childhood days from my thoughts; <br>still I see open protea flowers waiting on bees, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">with their smell that lingers in the air, <br>and I am caught by aloes<br>that fills the hillocks with their orange-red colour, <br>and in the late afternoons I find the shadows that the hillocks throw</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and when the jacarandas in the city bloom, <br>when the garden in my yard is full of flowers, <br>when I find comfort at the fireplace in winter<br>then my thoughts keep going back</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and even when my darling looks great-eyed at me<br>(whom I adore with my heart and soul) <br>and my friends that visit constantly<br>I cannot remove the city which is always crowding into life</div><div style="margin:10px 0">and although our house of stone and brick<br>exists as if it will remain eternally, <br>where it's bordered by palisades like a fortress, <br>protected by electric wires</div><div style="margin:10px 0">when the city's end suddenly comes, <br>when by man destruction<br>or a nuclear accident suddenly occurs<br>I will return to Heidelberg with its sugar bush hillocks.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Gert+Strydom">Gert Strydom</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=398209" data-title="I Am From Heidelberg With Its Sugar Bush Hillocks de Gert Strydom" data-description="I am from Heidelberg with its sugar bush hillocks and cannot remove the memories from childhood days from my thoughts; still I see open protea flowers waiting on bees, with their smell that lingers in the air, and I am caught by aloes that fil..."></div> </div> </div>

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