Brave and Reckless: Mad World

Posted on 2020/10/21 by Bartholomew Barker

The Brave and Reckless Blog posted a little poem I wrote for one of their prompts. It’s called Sleep the Sleep of the Dead and it was prompted by that wonderful song Roland Orzabal of Tears for Fears wrote and Gary Jules covered, Mad World.

Diligent readers may remember Brave and Reckless posted a COVID-19 poem of mine back in the Spring when I figured the pandemic would be contained in the States within three or four months. How naïve I was.

Thanks, Christine!

About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.

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7 Responses to Brave and Reckless: Mad World

Lisa Tomey says:

2020/10/21 at 10:59

Congratulations and well done!

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2020/10/21 at 17:25
  
  Thanks! Glad you liked it.
  
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JeanMarie says:

2020/10/21 at 14:36

Congratulations. You set a high bar for us. I really like this poem. So fitting now that we are in month sixty-teen, or whatever it is.

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2020/10/21 at 17:27
  
  Thanks. The months all seem to run together anymore.
  
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Susi Bocks says:

2020/10/21 at 15:31

Woo hoo! :)

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2020/10/21 at 17:31
  
  Hell yeah!
  
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  - Susi Bocks says:
    
    2020/10/21 at 18:32
    
    :)
    
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