Tag Archives: atheist

If you find my journal

Posted on 2025-12-16 by Bartholomew Barker

If you find my journal Best keep the clasp tight not for any secrets sitting within (poets don’t write those down) but for everything that might spill out A stem of heather picked in the Ring of Brodgar on the … Continue reading →

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Deal of a Lifetime

Posted on 2025-04-08 by Bartholomew Barker

While hiking in a forest, wondering if a storm-fallen tree could be a metaphor, I found a man wearing a black Prada suit with red pinstripes, waiting for me where two trails meet. With a slick smile, he offered me … Continue reading →

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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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Why Bother published on MasticadoresUSA

Posted on 2025-02-01 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m proud to announce that my poem Why Bother has been published on MasticadoresUSA. I hope all my readers will check it out. It could be considered my atheist manifesto.

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