The Poetry of Gary Charles Wilkens at www.gcwilkens.com
Poems 2006
Advise for Beginning Mystics
Reflection
Every Country’s Crazy About a Sharp-dressed Man
History
The Kabul Blues
Aubade
Cuckold
Blue Mood, 1965
Martyr
"Oh What Accursed Misfortune..."
How Long the Night Was
Innisfree Empty
Trains of the German Public System
Michael
Writer's Block
Tang
Philosopher
The Mind of John Miller
I Found God at the Highway Church
My Lover Like a Cicada
Lunch with Visiting Poet Yusef Komunyakaa
Weather Report
Symphony
Rainy Work Day
Adam
Travel Fast on Open Roads
Why is the Sky Black?
John Ray
Punk
Iraqi Poet in Exile, Paris 1980
Hamadou Dreams of Spain
The Kind of World We Live In
Missing the Lunar Eclipse
We Did So Much
Recollections of Childhood
(won 3rd place in May '06
IBPC
Contest)
Scientist
Replacement Head
Women Who are Loved by Poets
Indian Recycler
Broken Ties
Black Forest Love Poem
Paradise's Greatest Hits
Barrier
Three Times a Year
Breathed into His Nostrils
Prevarication Blues
The Dead of Ludwigsburg
Pentagon Laugh Therapy (A True Story)
The Gift
Lady Ota