Fraiku: Grumpy

Posted on 2024/04/19 by Bartholomew Barker

Asked my doctor why I’m sneezing and bashful
She prescribed happy pills but they make me sleepy
At least I don’t get dopey

For today’s prompt, pick an emotion, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem.

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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21 Responses to Fraiku: Grumpy

  1. trE says:
    2024/04/19 at 20:47

    Haha. I see what you did there! 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾

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  2. Cindy Georgakas says:
    2024/04/19 at 22:46

    hahahaha love it😂

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  3. equipsblog says:
    2024/04/20 at 06:43

    You were able to include many of the dwarfs..

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  4. equipsblog says:
    2024/04/20 at 11:10

    I possibly did not read it carefully enough. Re-read confirms your story.

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  5. JeanMarie says:
    2024/04/20 at 12:01

    😃🤣 funny

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  6. Othermary says:
    2024/04/20 at 13:06

    Glad you didn’t try to be your own Doc. ;-)

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  7. Carolyn Crossley VixenOfVerse says:
    2024/04/21 at 06:24

    I love this, Bart. It made me smile!😍

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  8. Bianca Alina says:
    2024/04/21 at 18:56

    😅😅

    I love this, Bartholomew!

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