Burk Poems

Twinkle twinkle little child

...18 April 2024  5:53 Pm

Twinkle twinkle little star 
How I wonder what you are

Up above the clouds so high 
Like a diamond in the sky

I remember when I was a child, innocent in my ignorance...

Categories: burk, child, god,
Form: Rhyme

Splat

...Smashed up against the wall it 
Shat ter ed
 	in     
to
 tin
y
 pi ec es.  
My m
i
n d 
is splintered  broken, 
never to be put back together again 
S as in 
 P as in pratt
 L as in lo...

Categories: burk, memory,
Form: Free verse

D-I-Why

...A hammer and nails, a tri-square and saw
Some screws and a diagram laid on the floor
With two long sides cut, I shall now cut each end
And if the wood splits then it’s easy to mend 

My wife see...

Categories: burk, humorous,
Form: Rhyme

Book: Radiant Verses: A Journey Through Inspiring Poetry

Wheres My Keys

...Where's my keys, I'm late for work
They should be on that shelf
If you've moved them you're a jerk
I'll look for them myself

So...

I've turned the whole house upside down
And looked in Benj...

Categories: burk, life,
Form: Rhyme

Cat History In Eight Stanzas

...Tom said to his kitten: Don't hunt! It's hard work!
Leave hunting to others and don't be a burk
Watch me and heed me and later admire
We'll slink to the future - a far distant fire

There sat so...

Categories: burk, animal, cat, fun, funny,
Form: Verse

Chickens

...brrk brrk brrk
buc buc buc burk
nice chicken,

buc buc buc
brk brK BURKuRK
Mean CHICKEN!

The littles pet my mouth
as I say the brrks
Recoiling with delight 
when mean chicken 
gives them...

Categories: burk, fun, games,
Form: Grook

Dig Tree At Cooper Creek

...It’s Cooper’s Creek we’re crossing here, Willis said to Burke
We need to have a base camp and this creek ought to work
I’ll put it in the journal, November 1861
It’s been four months since we started...

Categories: burk, adventure, history, loss, men,
Form: Epic

A Sestina You Would Harley Notice

...Paul C. Burk

A Sestina you would Harley notice.

No mere mortal will ever ride a Hog 
that shines and gleams in all its chrome 
and paint. It’s a steed to search for one’s spirit, 
a quest on...

Categories: burk, upliftinggod, beautiful, beautiful, god,
Form: Sestina