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Best Poems From
BEN GIESKE
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A Canary Sings Its Worth
So many published poets from Kentucky.
I never dreamed myself among so many.
Quite dismayed reading their airs
When I compare mine to theirs.
I am one lonely voice.
I offer but a choice.
Will I be read or heard
Or lost among the herd?
Among so many singing birds
A canary is quite ordinary
But its voice is surely worth
A hearing on this earth.
Many poets come from Kentucky.
Not all claim my abode.
A canary may be ordinary,
At least its heard by those nearby.
(After reading A Brief Anthology Of Kentucky Poetry/June 28,2007)
Ben Gieske
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A Double Bed
All made up
sheets fresh
Quilted spread
fluffy pillows
Love is like that
at times
Dreamy pieces
fresh and
all made up
Before
being slept in
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Slipping in between
warmth and
smooth embraces
Sowing seeds
of dreams
Dirtying the sheets
and
fluffing pillows
Love goes on -- doubly made.
Ben Gieske
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A Happy Poet
away with all this seriousness
truth can be a sinful senseless mess
Just want to be a happy poet
juggling words and having fun with it
rosemary, thyme and oregano
que sera will be whatever it will be
bonjorno tomorrow some things will be
stuff like that and lots of things you know
Published by PoetsofMars in the book, 'Oh, What A Tangled Web'
Go to www.poetsofmars.com/index_copy(26) .html
Ben Gieske
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A Little Girl's First School Day
Seeds expelled to wander the desert air
Finding refuge in burial soil of a promised land.
An opened petal soon dies;
Come spring the bulb revives.
A vine clinging to her mothers dress,
Her fists budded into her mother-haven,
Crying tears of distress,
Running waters streaking her cheeks.
Unparted waters to the promised land,
Unbinding the clasping hands,
To walk through the parted sea,
Tears of baptism, tears of rebirth,
running waters streaking her cheeks.
For those who know and understand
The truth will make them free;
But how to see and understand
That beyond the fear we will be free.
Sept.14,2006
Ben Gieske
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