A new page has been added to this website, to the OTHER POETS & POEMS section. It contains eight fine poems by Andrew Burke, along with some biographical and bibliographical information about this highly regarded Australian poet. Have a gander here!
Here is an exquisite poems to arouse your interest:
SITTING TOGETHER
There are prayers
that rise
from our wind chimesas we sit
together
in veranda shadesmoke rises
from the hills
around usAlice cannot keep
all her songs
inside herSo she gently hums
not to interrupt
our worrying© Andrew Burke
from Mother Waits for Father Late
The January-February 2018 issue of Quadrant magazine contains four of Andrew’s poems: “These Astonishments”, “Dog”, “Bamboo Dragonflies from the Bamboo Forest”, “On the Fear of Foxes in Ancient Japan”. “Dog” is a haiku gunsaku, consisting of three haiku, and “On the Fear of Foxes in Ancient Japan” is a tanka gunsaku, consisting of four independent tanka linked together on the basis of a common subject.