Ben Gieske Poems

These appeared on Sketchbook, A Journal for Eastern and Western Art Forms as part of the results of the July / August 31,2009 'Cicada' Kukai

first date
cicada and me
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C. S. Lewis knew all about Narnia,
a country somewhere beyond Sylvania.
There’s only one way to get there.
You have to hide in a wardrobe and scratch your hair.
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Could you be this mother who
Loved the alphabet so much
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deep in the ring of life
one needs yeast
to rise above
the burden of labor
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along the roadside
black-eyed susans
waving hello
blackberries
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big tom
spilling into towns
beware
aggressive bird
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(from The Art of INUYASHA, Collection of original illustrations by Rumiko Takahashi)

welling from within
seeking the Jewel of Four Souls
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WILD SOCIETY

kingfisher
flash of blue
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Frothy clouds swimming in
Eyebrowing the cresting hill
One last surge splintering
Like sheep fleeing wolves
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I didn’t know this empty room was so full
Until I began to clean its mess of emptiness.

Vacant houses in corner webs,
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