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- Hopelessly in Love with Spring 2023/03/20
- Fraiku: Submission 2023/03/17
- Origami Flowers 2023/03/13
- Fraiku: Fetch 2023/03/10
- Forest Parable published at Edge of Humanity 2023/03/06
- Fraiku: Scrapbook 2023/03/03
- Stand with Me Published at Edge of Humanity 2023/02/27
- Fraiku: Last Match 2023/02/24
- Survivor Anger Published at Edge of Humanity 2023/02/20
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Author Archives: Bartholomew Barker
Hopelessly in Love with Spring
“To be interested in the changing seasons is … a happier state of mind than to be hopelessly in love with spring.” ~ George Santayana Spring knocked on my door this morning, all dressed in pink, babbling about the daffodils. … Continue reading
Fraiku: Submission
Silk scarf ’round your neck lust pulling tight — seeing stars trust leaves you breathless (for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Breathtaking)
Origami Flowers
Before I fold the squareI write a little poemsomething brief and crypticlike a poorly translated fortune If I’ve folded a boatI’ll launch on the creeklet it float downstreamto a reader or some hungry fish If I’ve folded a paper flyI’ll … Continue reading
Fraiku: Fetch
Retrieval of sticksis a serious matterexcept from water for this week’s Living Poetry Prompt Last Friday Susi Bocks from The Short of It interviewed me about the next anthology, Reflections and Revelations. I read my poem Roses at the … Continue reading
Forest Parable published at Edge of Humanity
I am pleased, proud and positively pumped to announced a new poem of mine, Forest Parable, has been published over at Edge of Humanity. This is the third of three poems that they accepted recently and I’ll definitely be submitting … Continue reading
Fraiku: Scrapbook
Little square windowsinto a black & white pastWas that you or me? (for this week’s Living Poetry Prompt.)
Stand with Me Published at Edge of Humanity
I am pleased to announce that Edge of Humanity Magazine has published an old poem of mine, Stand With Me. Once again, I strongly encourage all my readers check it out and follow their excellent site. Here’s the first stanza … Continue reading
Fraiku: Last Match
The moment of truthwill it sputter to lifeor will darkness snuff the light
Survivor Anger Published at Edge of Humanity
I am proud to announce that Edge of Humanity Magazine has published a new poem of mine, Survivor Anger. I strongly encourage all my readers check it out and follow their excellent site. Here’s the first stanza of six, to … Continue reading
Fraiku: Traveling through the Dark
I wonder what it’d be like to live where no blinking red lights marred the heroic night sky that never cared less (for William Stafford from whom I stole the title and the heroic sky that never cared less.)