Her Countenance

Posted on 2023-04-08 by Bartholomew Barker

Her Countenance
for Cassa Bassa

I was close to calling a close to my career
not content with the content I was composing
then from a cumulus cloud (not cirrus!) she came.

Caring and clever, comely and creative,
she coaxes another canto of consonance
from this cognitively compromised clown.

Cuddly as a cute koala,
quiet as a kookaburra,
her collegial comments
color my cosmos.

(This one’s a got a lot of prompts behind it. Robert Lee Brewer’s “For today’s prompt, write a homograph poem” and Sammi Cox’s Cognitive weekend prompt and Cassa Bassa’s encouragement to write a C-word poem after my B-Movie poem but not with the C-word, of course, and her recent post asking Is This Art?.)

(I’m just proud I didn’t have to resort to a “chocolate conies” reference for Easter.)

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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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13 Responses to Her Countenance

  1. Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris's avatar Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris says:
    2023-04-08 at 20:58

    Intriguing Bartholomew and fun in a twisted sort of way! ☺️

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  2. Geoff Stamper's avatar Geoff Stamper says:
    2023-04-08 at 22:52

    Clever Combination.

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  3. utopicdystopian's avatar utopicdystopian says:
    2023-04-09 at 05:13

    super clever…

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  4. Cassa Bassa's avatar Cassa Bassa says:
    2023-04-09 at 09:31

    Wow an awesome C poem. Your creative juice is flowing like a spring. 🌼🌱

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  5. Nancy's Notes 🖊️🎶's avatar The Sicilian Storyteller says:
    2023-04-09 at 11:44

    Creative, clever, charming and fun!

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