Buk Poems

I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

...I hanker and pine for wood burning stove weather

I haint no spring chicken,
("Buk buk buk buk ba-gawk!")
but in Summer re: 
long in tooth sexagenarian 
nostalgic for the following imagery 
ev...

Categories: buk, age, allegory, appreciation, celebration,
Form: Free verse

Marie of Ecosse

...Sound of a song softly sung rose in the air and through windows
Barred to let air and light in and little else.
A lament sung in Gaelic tongue foreign to ears used to French,
But its meaning under...

Categories: buk, abuse, anger, conflict, fear,
Form: Ballad

Open Date On the Calendar

...The director 
of the arts center
told me 
he was trying real hard
to sign Bukowski 
for a reading

but Buk
had the audacity
to die
leaving an open date
on the calendar

and shoes
entire...

Categories: buk, life,
Form: Free verse

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Cool

...ALSKARE AUSUARTA: VAIMOKSENI NAINEN: RAKKAUS JA HALU: VAIN JOS RAKASTAT MINUA, BUK STRACKNING, KLO HALL. URAGAN VERSI, OURAGAN -VERSETS.
BRUMES VOLCANIQUES-TULIVUORI, RUDRICK ROUXKIN, KARLEK SIDO HU...

Categories: buk, appreciation, business, care, celebration,
Form: Ballad

Playing With Native Nigerian Names

...omo-gori-ola- "often only hollas" but...
its my mic not ikenna's
aunty tee momohmutana-seems to like plenty tea more than bannnas
Gertrude? NO! she aint RUDE! dont. .. slam her
Olumide- he's only...

Categories: buk, fun,
Form: ABC

Buk

...buk never did this
dabble in cheesey haiku
he wrote the real deal...

Categories: buk, angst, drink, poets,
Form: Haiku

God Isn'T Great

...a poem/prose from my new pen name book

Ultima Thule by Jimmy Boom Semtex

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ISBN: 978-1-326-14210-0


God Isn't Great
It says on the van windscreen GOD IS GOOD. Maybe the drivers believe th...

Categories: buk, anger, angst, anxiety, conflict,
Form: Prose

The Gift of Poetry

...Poetry Gives me the
Wings to Fly...

The gifts that
poetry brings to me
Allows me to fly
into the clouds
Of imagination
Taking me to lands I
have ever known
To fly free from
this body
Enc...

Categories: buk, appreciation, emotions, feelings, fun,
Form: Prose

Bukowski Sits On My Keyboard, Writes Bad Poetry

...it's all your fault
that i got a rejection letter
the letters were wrong
and their order not right,
what was i thinking,
sending my thoughts out loud
to a Brit no less,
la di da
i digress
i ...

Categories: buk, on writing and words,
Form: I do not know?

Play On Bukowski--,For Linda King's Buk Sculpture

...-                                                         you dirt dog                                You dirt dog
                                                    grimy as they get
            ...

Categories: buk, art, dedication, nostalgia, on
Form: Concrete

Plagiarism (Tag To Simone Segal)

..."I'm a poet. I know it. Hope I don't blow it"
Do you want to commit what many poets consider a mortal sin?
Do what I just did. Commit an act of plagiarism.
The above first verse isn't mine. It's M...

Categories: buk, children, world, work, children,
Form: Rhyme

Buk

...The Poetry Journal
Sent my first electronic rejection slip. 
Enjoyed reading my work
But the inaugural issue is full and are
Unable to publish my poetry…they say.
The Editor wishes me luck. 
Af...

Categories: buk, funny, on writing and
Form: Free verse