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Best Poems From
BEN GIESKE
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A Beginning
white canvas
................all bleached
what first
................a broad wash
across the horizontal
................hesitation
this is not art
................so much waiting
for the details
what will blend
what will bleed
so much there
before we started looking
now the changes
................the seasons
................the reasons
Published on-line by Ink Sweat & Tears for Feb.12,2008
Go to: http: //ink-sweat-and-tears.blogharbor.com
- composed Oct.18,2007
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 Crack In The Mirror
Mirror, mirror on the wall,
Where are you hiding me?
That face is not the one I recall.
Its not the me I seem to be.
Forget that school reunion picture.
Im not the fella standing there.
Who could all those others be?
Where is Joe and Fred, with their hair?
Could that be Bill and Paul?
So many I never saw.
Could it be we were classmates once?
I feel like such a dunce.
Mirror, mirror on the wall.
Why cant you hide the years?
A crack now in your face appears.
My memory is cracking too I fear.
June 15,2006
Ben Gieske
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120.
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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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