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October 07, 2024

Articles by Wayne F. Burke



[Poem]

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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