Selected Poems of Richard Riehle

By Richard Riehle

The poems in this book comprise a small set from
Richard’s lifetime work of poetry. He has been
studying and writing poetry as well other kinds of
literature for over six decades. Richard is a practitioner
in the field of software engineering, and has also
published many articles in technology journals.
He has a PhD in his profession, and still teaches
graduate-school level computer science courses.
He continues to make time for his other interests,
including literature, ballroom dancing, and Judo. His
Judo rank is Fourth Degree black belt and he trains
and coaches in the Judo dojo as often as possible.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Xlibris US
• Release date: Feb 8, 2019
• ISBN: 9781796013443

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Copyright © 2019 by Richard Riehle.

Library of Congress Control Number:        2019901168

ISBN:                        Hardcover                         978-1-7960-1346-7

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This is a work of fiction. All of the characters, names, incidents, organizations, and dialogue in this novel are either the products of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously.

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Rev. date: 02/06/2019

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Contents

When You Return

East Mountain

Epithalamion

Gold Star Window Banner – 1944

Gas - 1915

Ice Cream

Meditation

Valentine’s Day

Beijing Birds

Knots

Dive

Sonnet XXVII

Opus Impromtu

Pariah Unbound

Natural Causes

Memorial Day

Last Judo Shiai

Indecision

Waribashi

A Childhood Lesson

Vanishing Priesthood

The Wall

Retirement

Milkman – 1940

Wissahickon Trail

Sonnet XVIII

Carpe Diem

Reply to a Requiem

Homeward Angels

The Old Garden

Could I Recall it Now

Cellular Automata

Curtain Song

Shinrin Yoku

Skipping Stones

Love Sonnet

The Thanatologist Dies

Growing Young

Strings of Old

Helmet

Comparing

Rhinoceros (from Ionesco’s play)

Night Poem

Long Ago On a Summer Evening

The Professor’s Secret

Eternal Joke

Haiku

Notes

The poems in this selection are only a small set from all the poems written by Richard Riehle over a very long period of time. Some, not included in this selection go back as far as 1953 when Richard was a teenager.

Richard was born in 1936 in semi-rural Pennsylvania along the Susquehanna River. He spent some of his early life on an island in that river on an island owned by his grandfather. He continues to visit that island whenever