Ben Gieske Poems

(painting by Dennis Sheehan)

As the sun silently slips behind a clump of trees,
saying goodbye to its day-long spent energy
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This morning the sun spattered the world with blue
Skies and from their resting places the winds blew

In reply. Now around us we see blue jays,
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you
sunshine
to my face
your warmth I feel
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We will build a tower
With unbridled spring-water attitudes
Flowing with fires of charity
For all the suffering multitudes
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the clouds
................dark in the horizon
..............................prepare for departure

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over the hill
a river of fog
flooding the valley
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freshly fallen snow
no tracks to follow
no dreams

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An ambrosial blue
awakens its eyes
petal by petal
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I went to Japan and met a Samurai
Who lived in the mountains which were very high.
He was a master of the art of origami.
He made a thousand paper cranes just for me. *
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away with all this seriousness
truth can be a sinful senseless mess

Just want to be a happy poet
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