Wayne began writing poetry and songs when he retired from the U.S. Air Force. He attended eleven different schools from Kindergarten through High School, five different colleges, and completed both High School and College GED tests while in the Air Force. His military service placed him in eleven different assignments from 1954 -1975. His military and non-military travels have placed him in most of the States, Mexico and Canada. Wayne was in Korea, Japan, Hong Kong, the Philippines, Okinawa, and Hawaii in the Pacific. European countries visited include France, Luxembourg, Belgium, Switzerland, Holland, Austria and Germany. A mission trip with the Presbyterian Church gave Wayne the opportunity to visit Honduras and Guatemala. He is a current member of the North Carolina Poetry Society. He has worked as a landscape designer/builder in North and South Carolina since 1979. One of his favorite projects was building a "Poet’s Garden" for Salli Nixon, Poet and friend, who resides at Covenant Village in Gastonia, NC. The day he met Salli he went home and wrote two poems. Many of his poems are of the Garden variety.
