Sun skims horizon one last day
in the Arctic— a failed experiment
to untilt the planet
(For this week’s Living Poetry Prompt, though I only used two of the three words supplied and, of course, Wednesday’s Equinox. Happy Autumn to my fellow Northern Hemispherians.)
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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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Ominous foretelling beautifully written.
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Thank you!
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Thanks. Happy Spring to you!
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An intriguing concept Bart ..
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Glad you liked it.
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You did the right thing to not be a slave to the prompt. They are just jumping off places anyway. Am I right? Untilt is odd. Destroy doesn’t fit. Good job.
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Thank you. If I didn’t have to write a Fraiku, I would’ve used “destroy” and the poem would’ve turned out very different but I’m content with the result.
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Are you contractually obligated to write a Fraiku? Hmmm….
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Oh yeah, I’m getting big money from the Fraiku industrial complex.
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