{"id":1165,"date":"2008-02-12T07:50:28","date_gmt":"2008-02-12T07:50:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ink.verticalplus.co.uk\/archive\/?p=1165"},"modified":"2008-02-12T07:50:28","modified_gmt":"2008-02-12T07:50:28","slug":"three-poems-by-bernard-gieske","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/three-poems-by-bernard-gieske\/","title":{"rendered":"Three poems by Bernard Gieske"},"content":{"rendered":"

THE SUN\u2019S STILL THERE<\/span>
 

<\/span>There\u2019s the sun<\/span>
always the sun<\/span>
during the day<\/span>
rain or shine<\/span>
sometimes it<\/span>
thunders and <\/span>
sometimes it<\/span>
lightnings and <\/span>
clouds breaking op-<\/span>
en bursting<\/span>
white blizzards<\/span>
tornadoes<\/span>
hurricanes<\/span>
tsunamis<\/span>
on all the just <\/span>
and unjust<\/span>
and the sun\u2019s <\/span>
still there <\/span>
not caring <\/span>
not caring at all.<\/span>
Some say it\u2019s <\/span>
all God\u2019s will.<\/span>
 <\/span>

A BEGINNING<\/span>
 <\/span>
white canvas<\/span>
     all bleached<\/span>
what first<\/span>
     a broad wash<\/span>
across the horizontal<\/span>
     hesitation<\/span>
this is not art<\/span>
     so much waiting<\/span>
for the details<\/span>
 <\/span>
what will blend<\/span>
what will bleed<\/span>
 <\/span>
so much there<\/span>
before we started looking<\/span>
now the changes<\/span>
     the seasons<\/span>
     the reasons <\/span>
 <\/span>
 <\/span>
WE CANNOT<\/span>
 <\/span>
dam the<\/span>
emotions<\/span>
that plunge<\/span>
from our<\/span>
hearts.<\/span>
 <\/span>
We can <\/span>
only <\/span>
channel <\/span>
them into<\/span>
foreign<\/span>
parts.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Bernard Gieske lives in Kentucky and says… “Poetry for me is a challenge. I enjoy reading it and hope to make my contribution.”
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THE SUN\u2019S STILL THERE There\u2019s the sunalways the sunduring the dayrain or shinesometimes itthunders and sometimes itlightnings and clouds breaking op-en burstingwhite blizzardstornadoeshurricanestsunamison all the just and unjustand the sun\u2019s still there not caring not caring at all.Some say it\u2019s all God\u2019s will. A BEGINNING white canvas     all bleachedwhat first     a broad washacross the horizontal     hesitationthis is not […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-prose-poetry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/inksweatandtears.co.uk\/archive\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}