Fraiku: Elections

Posted on 2024-11-01 by Bartholomew Barker

Saints don’t run
for public office
but villains do

(for All Saints Day, this week’s Monday Poetry Prompt and the election Tuesday.)

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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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19 Responses to Fraiku: Elections

  1. DD's avatar DD says:
    2024-11-01 at 19:29

    Hmmmm…
    with wicked lies
    honesty’s established
    and votes gathered

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  3. luisa zambrotta's avatar luisa zambrotta says:
    2024-11-02 at 05:58

    What a brilliant poem!!!

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  4. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2024-11-02 at 09:21

    To sweeten the pill of election time?…. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvpEuuFwo3A

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  5. LuAnne Holder's avatar LuAnne Holder says:
    2024-11-02 at 09:32

    Interesting take on an All Saints Day prompt. Quite timely.

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  6. Dawn Pisturino's avatar Dawn Pisturino says:
    2024-11-05 at 16:10

    That’s why, personally, I do not believe in political parties or politicians. Neither do I support any political party.

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