Fraiku from Alnitak

Posted on 2022/03/25 by Bartholomew Barker

I won’t say “I love you”
Love is a shooting star
I prefer “Let me help”

(Inspired by a line from the Star Trek episode “The City on the Edge of Forever“.)

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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5 Responses to Fraiku from Alnitak

  2. (Gypsie) Ami Offenbacher-Ferris says:
    2022/03/25 at 19:54

    A shooting star is only here for a brief moment when it accidentally collided with our atmosphere – it’s the end of its run. Prior to that it’s could be millions or billions of years in existence – so, perhaps love could be like the shooting star. Going on and on and on – or is that the Eveready Bunny? I get confused …. 😊

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  3. (Gypsie) Ami Offenbacher-Ferris says:
    2022/03/25 at 19:55

    Collides – Why isn’t there an edit function in comments?!?

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