Fraiku: Fog

Posted on 2025-12-05 by Bartholomew Barker

Soft as kitten paws
It sleeps like a fleece blanket
comforting us all

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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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21 Responses to Fraiku: Fog

  1. ivor20's avatar ivor20 says:
    2025-12-05 at 20:02

    Your description of a fog is calm and enchanting, Bart

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  2. JeanMarie's avatar JeanMarie says:
    2025-12-06 at 01:24

    It just so happened to be a foggy day today. I’m not a big fan of the stuff. I like to see where I’m going. Good job.

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  3. berniebell1955's avatar berniebell1955 says:
    2025-12-06 at 04:00

    That’s a very cosy view of fog……here’s an alternative….”“Fog everywhere. Fog up the river where it flows among green airs and meadows; fog down the river, where it rolls defiled among the tiers of shipping, and the waterside pollutions of a great (and dirty) city…. Chance people on the bridges peeping over the parapets into a nether sky of fog, with fog all round them, as if they were up in a balloon and hanging in the misty clouds.”
    ― Charles Dickens, Bleak House

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  4. LuAnne Holder's avatar LuAnne Holder says:
    2025-12-06 at 06:37

    What a vivid image of fog (if fog could be vivid!?!) I just read a review of a book called Chasing Fog on a site called Marginalian. You might enjoy the short read: https://www.themarginalian.org/2025/11/18/chasing-fog/?mc_cid=062824e069&mc_eid=184806cb1b

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  5. poetisatinta's avatar poetisatinta says:
    2025-12-06 at 06:49

    A wonderful description 🙌

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  6. trE's avatar trE says:
    2025-12-06 at 07:51

    We’re covered in fog in this part of NC this morning… how appropriate, how fitting.

    I love what you’ve done with this haiku, Bart.

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  7. pk 🌎's avatar pk 🌎 says:
    2025-12-11 at 13:32

    Wonderful description 💯

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