Among the Byzantine emperors, he singles out Nikephoros II Phokas for particular praise, while he denigrates his murderer and successor John Tzimiskes.
His works include epigrams, including a collection on monasticism called Paradeisos ("Paradise"), hymns to the Virgin Mary, an encomium to an oak tree, as well as prose works on rhetoric, oratory and exegesis.
[1][2] The first edition of his poems was published by John Antony Cramer in 1841, based on the 13th-century Paris.
A revised edition with a translation in French was published by Émilie Marlène van Opstall in 2008.
[4] An edition and English translation of Geometres's prose Life of the Virgin Mary was published by Maximos Constas and Christos Simelidis in 2023.