The Great Conjunction Haiku

Posted on 2020/12/09 by Bartholomew Barker

Summer triangle
points to the great conjunction
at winter’s solstice

For the next couple of weeks, Jupiter and Saturn will be drawing ever closer in the sunset sky. I strongly encourage everyone to go take a look but they’re very low in the west so don’t wait too long after the sun’s down.

Sorry for the Northern Hemisphere-centric haiku. I just noticed that the Summer Triangle of Vega, Deneb and Altair were pointing right at the two giant planets like an arrowhead and the poetry was too fine to pass by.

On an unrelated note, I’ve always thought that wanting to know more about a poet because you enjoy their poems is like wanting to meet a duck because you love foie gras. None the less, my friends at The Dark Sire, who published one of my Halloween poems last year, just posted an interview of me.

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 The Great Conjunction Haiku

Artist/Poet_JayMoraShihadeh says:

2020/12/09 at 20:17

nice interview. congrats

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2020/12/09 at 20:21
  
  Thanks! I strongly encourage poets to submit to The Dark Sire. They do a great job with promotion and they’re just good people too.
  
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  - Artist/Poet_JayMoraShihadeh says:
    
    2020/12/09 at 20:23
    
    Thanks I’ll have to check them out!
    
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JeanMarie says:

2020/12/09 at 20:30

Quack! 😄
Good interview sir ❤

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2020/12/09 at 20:54
  
  Quack-quack qua-quack quack.
  
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Aaeedah says:

2020/12/10 at 07:45

“You assume I love poetry. Like all art, 90% of poetry is shit but when you read one of those 10% poems, it’s like injecting another person’s thoughts directly into your veins.”

Loved that! 😊

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- Bartholomew Barker says:
  
  2020/12/10 at 18:52
  
  Thank you!
  
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