Ben Gieske Poems

How shall I love you
................in beauty or in truth?
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agape..................................agape

butterflies
.............................................nectar sweet
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(some information taken
from “American Profile”,
Feb.17-23,2008)
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Behold this day a future will bring.
Snow is quietly gracing the ground.
There will then just be a silent sound.
Will it be one of which we will sing?
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- after reading “A Rhyme of the Sun-Dial”
by William Bell Scott

The clock runs on, ‘tis but half-past one”
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What is it with this deceit:
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her soft-spoken eyes
quiver with hope
of a love that does not die.
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.......mirror in the attic
..........cobwebbed
......landscape of years
...........reflections
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SEDOKA

The Sedoka is an unrhymed poem made up of two three-line katauta with the following syllable counts: 5/7/7,5/7/7. A Sedoka, pair of katauta as a single poem, may address the same subject from differing perspectives.
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“In the past those whom you love
................don’t ever die.”
....From “Vertumnus”, a poem
...........by Joseph Brodsky
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