Articles by Wayne F. Burke
Poem
Nap
(2018-10-15) poem unrhymed
"...under fierce blue clouds thick as pillows..."
Fame
(2018-11-19) poem unrhymed
"...when men and women with cameras and microphones come to the door..."
One Dog Then
(2018-12-17) poem unrhymed
"...in the bark of early morning..."
Stiff
(2019-01-14) poem unrhymed
"...far from any care..."
Slept 8 Hours Straight
(2019-02-04) poem unrhymed
"...so beautiful
sparkling blue and
electric-green..."
Mush
(2019-04-01) poem unrhymed
"...the road a sheet of ice..."
Day's Inn
(2019-04-29) poem unrhymed
"...is whatever he's got
creeping underneath my door?.."
Champ
(2019-06-03) poem unrhymed
"...I laughed at them, the wind
in my face..."
Glucose
(2019-07-01) poem unrhymed
"...I never knew I had..."
Stung
(2019-07-29) poem unrhymed
"...a wasp stuck its triangular head out..."
Hot
(2019-09-23) poem unrhymed
"...the blood red sun
that scorched the pavement...
Fried
(2019-10-21) poem unrhymed
"...sizzled like bacon on the grill..."
Belief
(2019-11-18) poem unrhymed
"
The important thing is to
not die...
Cuffs
(2019-12-16) poem unrhymed
"...only more of the same cold rain..."
Get up to sit-up
(2020-01-13) poem unrhymed
"6:08 AM bird peeps
from meadows of
fire..."
Shiver
(2020-03-09) poem unrhymed
"...a cold wind,
blowing gray scrum
of clouds..."
Lake Champagne
(2020-04-06) poem unrhymed
"...a million specks of light,
two million divots of shadow..."
Sat by the River
(2020-05-04) poem unrhymed
"...purling and deep from
snow-melt..."
Ambition
(2020-06-01) poem unrhymed
"...stuck
in a failure of imagination..."
Local #1
(2020-06-29) poem unrhymed
"...demented saga
greater than Beowulf..."
Jungen
(2020-10-05) poem unrhymed
"Ponce de Leon went looking for the
Fountain of Youth..."
Atlanta to Destiny
(2020-11-02) poem unrhymed
"...toward a smooth ending
on the tarmac of dreams..."
The Day After
(2020-11-30) poem unrhymed
"...she will not rise until noon..."
Me
(2020-12-28) poem unrhymed
"...the window shade
down
so I can not see out..."
On the Ray de oh
(2021-01-25) poem unrhymed
"...another voice
selling something I do not want..."
Mz Mandelstan
(2021-03-29) poem unrhymed
"...long frizzy hair, hippy garb, granny glasses..."
Awake
(2021-04-26) poem unrhymed
"... determined to
drive me insane then
kill me..."
Visitor
(2021-05-24) poem unrhymed
"the echo
of a shout in the bedroom..."
Coffee
(2021-06-21) poem unrhymed
"met an old buddy
on the street..."
Neitzsche
(2021-07-19) poem unrhymed
"...the "Argonaut of the Spirit" had no more
to say..."
Back at Camp
(2021-10-11) poem unrhymed
"we cosmonauts are on
sacred ground..."
SOS
(2021-11-08) poem unrhymed
"...a final message from the front,
a last hurrah..."
Gaius
(2021-12-06) poem unrhymed
"...one AM, and
pretty sure
I will never sleep again..."
I Wake
(2021-12-27) poem unrhymed
"...a sentence 3 pages in length..."
Tonight
(2022-01-24) poem unrhymed
"...spaceship earth,
or stay within these white walls..."
Bacchus
(2022-03-14) poem unrhymed
"...he jabbers at me in French..."
Not Forgive
(2022-04-18) poem unrhymed
"...true
Dionysian,
letting go resentments
and hurts..."
All-Star
(2022-05-16) poem unrhymed
"...cut, he quit
cold turkey..."
Under the Volcano
(2022-06-13) poem unrhymed
"...how about that taxing Taxcala chapter?!.."
acceptance
(2022-07-11) poem unrhymed
"word comes down from the North..."
Vacation Haiku
(2022-08-29) poem unrhymed
"...uneasy sleep beside the ocean..."
I've Flown with the Birds
(2022-10-03) poem unrhymed
...I've kept mostly to myself..."
Read Funny Sad Letters
(2022-10-31) poem unrhymed
'..."I am Me," Ginsberg writes...'
(from) Haiku You!
(2022-11-28) poem unrhymed
"...dry leaves slither along the pavement..."
Soul
(2023-01-30) poem unrhymed
"...I think I have one..."
Friends
(2023-02-27) poem unrhymed
"...Got some gall I think..."
N.C. (1926-68)
(2023-03-27) poem unrhymed
"...death came floundering down the line..."
HENRY'S
(2023-04-24) poem unrhymed
"...at HENRY’S diner in the aftermath of Covid..."
Black Shoe
(2023-05-22) poem unrhymed
"...Like a foot thirty years barely beating..."
Hotel Room, Panama Beach, Florida**
(2023-06-26) poem unrhymed
"...rain bullets raking the deck windows..."
I Got The
(2023-07-24) poem unrhymed
"...got to got to sweep the floor make some money..."
College!
(2023-08-28) poem unrhymed
"...searching for Truth, gathered in forums..."
Jock
(2023-09-25) poem unrhymed
"...Oh, I'd forgot-- because I do not care..."
Dream
(2023-10-23) poem unrhymed
"...report immediately to the auditorium to read the poem..."
Black birds float
(2023-12-25) poem unrhymed
"...in the pale blue sky of dusk..."
Ku/haiku
(2024-01-08) poem unrhymed
Haiku thoughts
Drenched
(2024-02-05) poem unrhymed
"...I woke to the great city, cars people, buildings..."
Artist
(2024-03-04) poem unrhymed
"... Clueless how to approach such a thing...."
An Acrid Smell
(2024-04-01) poem unrhymed
"...the river glimpsed through roadside trees, the Androscoggin..."
Called Out
(2024-05-06) poem unrhymed
"...having trouble catching his breath and climbing stairs..."
Meanwhile
(2024-07-15) poem unrhymed
"...a beak-nosed craven twerp..."
For the Day
(2024-08-12) poem unrhymed
"...The ocean outside the hotel window looks peaceful..."
Squiggles
(2024-09-16) poem unrhymed
"...I was excited, had never met an artist before..."
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