Just Sugar, Sweet Sugar (Ghazal) Poem by Ben Gieske

Just Sugar, Sweet Sugar (Ghazal)

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The mountains loomed high, the valleys of rivers reflected sparkling crystals all of sugar.
There were beets and there were canes and as far as the eye could see just sugar, sweet sugar.

Nothing black, nothing sour, not even a hint of bitterness
from east to west, north to south in this landscape of sugar.

My eyes licked those mountain slopes, my lips slurped up
those valley streams sprinkled with crystals of sugar.

Sliding down the mountains, skittering down,
a mountain slide of sugar – miles and miles of sugar.

White stallions thundering over the plains, white rabbits scampering
over the hills - invisible against vast sheets of snow sugar.

Sounds of music flooding through earth’s atmospheric filter,
all I can hear now is the resonant sounds of sugar.

- July 29,2008

Published online by The Ghazal Page
Go to: http: //www.ghazalpage.net/2008/sugar_challenge/refined_sugar.html

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Marilyn Lott 01 January 2009

What a deliciously 'sweet' world you have created, Ben. A great way to start the New Year. Thanks! 10! Sweet Wishes, Marilyn

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