Fraiku: Tehran and Washington

Posted on 2022-10-07 by Bartholomew Barker

Women march in the street
protesting theocracy
maybe Gods are the problem

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About Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop for more than decade. 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 lives and writes poetry.
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15 Responses to Fraiku: Tehran and Washington

  1. yourplateormine967244485's avatar yourplateormine967244485 says:
    2022-10-07 at 22:39

    Deep and profound, love the message. 🙏💗

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  2. pensivepoetblog's avatar pensivepoetblog says:
    2022-10-07 at 23:30

    I feel it’s more a problem of humans who think they are gods and have the right to judge who lives and who dies. And isn’t it us who have legitimized their power?

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  3. pensivepoetblog's avatar pensivepoetblog says:
    2022-10-08 at 11:09

    We’ve legitimized the oppression of women rights here in the good old USA as well. Women are fighting here too. The situation may be more extreme in some other places, but it is also getting extreme here. And beyond the oppression of women there are killings of children all over the world happening as well. I would call this behavior Godless. Even if God is used as the justification, religion has been interpreted all over the world as man’s right to dominated everything that threatens their power. Including nature.

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  4. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2022-10-08 at 11:39

    Re. where we see ourselves in the scheme of things….and where we are.

    Consider Whales…..just for one…..

    http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=15888

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  5. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2022-10-09 at 03:21

    I tell you one thing Bart – you got folk thinking, and talking.

    Last words from me…for now….

    And…timing….. http://www.spanglefish.com/berniesblog/blog.asp?blogid=15958

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  6. Priti's avatar Priti says:
    2022-10-11 at 08:19

    .👌👌👌

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