Ben Gieske Poems

trembling branch
the eagle has landed
shedding snow
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Palpitations in every human heart
Encourages a human surge to take part.
Activities spawned by love, concern, and patient desire
Contribute to an eternal inner-burning fire
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Life is like a light bulb
in the socket of this globe
off and on, on and off
one big, awful glob
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happy accidents
Picasso’s way

ways the colors bend
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In Memoriam, April 16,2007
Virginia Tech

33,000
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Look up and gaze at craters on the cheesy moon.
A cow, a spoon jumping over the cheesy moon.

Opening the refrigerator, what cheese now?
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What steps do we climb
................with creaks and groans?
What ghosts have passed our way?
................When was I meeting mine?
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(to Marja Kristiina and her admirers
.......of “A Home From The Heart”)

her hands are clever,
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The sun scrambles over the hills
taking census of all its kingdom creatures,
holding them in its grasp
pillaging every forest tree
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I
ate
the
hate
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