Ben Gieske Poems

Who said, “You can be whatever you want to be
................................................................was not a laborer
being squeezed by corporate octopuses
forever..........................grabbing more and more
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Black ant on my bathroom sink
Its light no longer blinks.
Squirrel flattened victim of the tread
It’s light has since long fled.
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I long to wander and to wonder
that other side of life untried
reaching down inside of me beyond nature’s side,
urgings not yet satisfied,
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It began with thundering
................marching
.................................raindrops
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crocus maiden-white
wisp of snow's kiss
early spring
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They swim through the sky waters,
heading south,
Rippling like a beaver’s swim,
wood in his mouth.
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(source - Guinness Book of World Records - 1989)

Illacme Plenipes, a millipede*
Continues to deceive
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time to cut the grass
harvest another poem
whirling blade, whirling thoughts
helicopter gunships hurled in Shakespear’s spheres
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A newborn baby’s eyes
amazes the mother’s eyes

What a spider web captures
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she
wearing the moon
of night’s melodies
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