Monthly Archives: April 2021

Falling Free

Posted on 2021/04/12 by Bartholomew Barker

Instead of writing to someone else’s prompt, I wrote today’s poem for Yuri’s Night, the sixtieth anniversary of the first time we put a human in orbit. Falling Free Mission Control didn’t knowhow he’d react without weightso they locked the … Continue reading →

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Past his Prime

Posted on 2021/04/11 by Bartholomew Barker

For today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog, write a prime number poem. That is, I want you to somehow incorporate a prime number into your poem. You could include a prime number in the title of … Continue reading →

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Get Vaccinated!

Posted on 2021/04/10 by Bartholomew Barker

Here’s today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog: take the phrase “Get (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles … Continue reading →

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Les Fleurs du mal

Posted on 2021/04/09 by Bartholomew Barker

To honor Charles Baudelaire on his 200th birthday, I wrote a prose poem from Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog: For today’s prompt, write a persona poem for an inanimate object. A persona poem is when you write a … Continue reading →

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Poetry is…

Posted on 2021/04/08 by Bartholomew Barker

From Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog: For today’s prompt, write a metaphor poem. A simile is when something is like a something else (example: I am like a tree); a metaphor is when something is something else (example: … Continue reading →

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My Bully

Posted on 2021/04/07 by Bartholomew Barker

From Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog: For today’s prompt, write a villain poem. You could write a persona poem from the perspective of a popular villain (like Count Dracula, Thanos, or Dolores Umbridge). Or write a poem with … Continue reading →

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For my Muse

Posted on 2021/04/06 by Bartholomew Barker

Here’s today’s prompt from Robert Lee Brewer: For this Two-for-Tuesday prompt: Write a change poem and/or… Write a don’t change poem. For my Muse She changes every nightbut I barely noticeuntil two weeks passand she’s brighterthan a nightingale song. But … Continue reading →

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My First Crush

Posted on 2021/04/05 by Bartholomew Barker

For today’s prompt, take the phrase “The First (blank),” replace the blank with a word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Possible titles include: “The First Kiss,” “The First Day … Continue reading →

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The trees are active tonight…

Posted on 2021/04/04 by Bartholomew Barker

For today’s prompt, write an active poem. That could be a poem comprised of active (vs passive) verbs. But it could also be about exercising, playing a sport, or keeping your mind active. Any activity would do, I suppose, even … Continue reading →

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Canis Lingua

Posted on 2021/04/03 by Bartholomew Barker

For today’s prompt, write a communication poem. All poems communicate something, I know, but I’m thinking of different ways people can communicate: text message, letter, signs, and even speaking dialogue. Of course, there are forms of communication as well, because … Continue reading →

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