Fraiku: Nightingale and Wolf

Posted on 2025-05-16 by Bartholomew Barker

Under the midnight moon
two voices in the wilderness
serenading the night

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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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23 Responses to Fraiku: Nightingale and Wolf

  1. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2025-05-17 at 03:31

    “Listen, listen. The children of the night make their music.” (Klaus Kinski in Herzog’s Nosferatu)

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  4. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2025-05-18 at 02:27

    I said I’d say ‘nowt – I lied……..

    Bartholomew Barker
    Howls at the Moon

    He & his kinsfolk
    Can’t wait ‘til June

    The Wolves and the Owls
    Wildcats and Weres

    They’re out in the darkness
    Knowing no fears

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  5. Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris's avatar Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris says:
    2025-05-18 at 03:21

    Lovely Bartholomew! 💗

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  8. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2025-05-22 at 09:26

    And ‘Sunraiku’ includes Ra – the sun-god. Mixing mythologies!

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