Tag Archives: atheism

What If?

Posted on 2025-04-01 by Bartholomew Barker

What if I only had a year to live? I’d quit my day job, throw myself into a poetic frenzy, leave a literary mess of wine stained pages for someone else to clean up. What if I had five years … Continue reading →

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Casino Earth

Posted on 2024-01-29 by Bartholomew Barker

Viruses do not mutate out of malice. The earth does not quake to punish. Hurricanes do not plan or regret. We live on a scary planet— despite a clockwork cosmos above, random disasters arise below. It’s comforting to imagine that … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Belief

Posted on 2022-07-22 by Bartholomew Barker

When someone asks if I believe in God I tell them I just disbelieve in one more god than they do

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A cardinal, an owl and a raven walk into a bar…

Posted on 2017-04-22 by Bartholomew Barker

This morning some of my fellow Living Poets and I visited Ayr Mount in Hillsborough and followed the appropriately named Poet’s Walk. Amongst the trees along the Eno River, I was thinking about today’s prompt but was also considering something … Continue reading →

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Why Bother?

Posted on 2015-11-30 by Bartholomew Barker

When Death is the extinguished flame from a wick exhausted with no chance of re-ignition, no hope of reward nor fear of punishment, with nothing after the End, why bother? I bother because I want to know more, read more … Continue reading →

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