Fraiku: Purpose

Posted on 2021/08/13 by Bartholomew Barker
www.porpoise.org

The purpose of a porpoise
postulated precisely in a pleasing poem
that the porpoise’s purpose’s play

(For this week’s Living Poetry Prompt and, just in case you missed it, my poem At the Beach appeared on Whispers and Echoes yesterday.)

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. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for a Pushcart Prize in 2021. 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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12 Responses to Fraiku: Purpose

  1. JeanMarie says:
    2021/08/13 at 19:30

    Phantastic!

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  2. ivor20 says:
    2021/08/13 at 20:47

    biopsychology frivolity

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  3. Didier Beaugrand says:
    2021/08/14 at 01:24

    Whimsical, and playful 😜! And I love the alliteration. 👏👏👏
    🙏

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  4. Cassa Bassa says:
    2021/08/14 at 04:49

    It must have been fun to write this

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