Tag Archives: blind

Please Touch the Art

Posted on 2025-08-09 by Bartholomew Barker

Last week I visited the Charles H. Taylor Visual Arts Center in Hampton, Virginia, to see the Please Touch the Art exhibit by Sally Barker. It wasn’t the first time I’d seen these works since the artist is my mother. … Continue reading →

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Blinded

Posted on 2023-09-20 by Bartholomew Barker

Take off my glasses so there’s nothing between our eyes Stay close to these windows of my myopic soul I just want to feel The curve of your hips in my hands the smell of your baby powder skin the … Continue reading →

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What I’ll Miss When I’m Blind

Posted on 2022-04-28 by Bartholomew Barker

For today’s prompt, write a sight poem. What I’ll Miss When I’m Blind Sure I’ll miss the night skyand that scrunched-up faceyou make between the vodkaand Mountain Dew teaser But I’ll still be able to hear you singthe taste of … Continue reading →

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Who Needs Sight?

Posted on 2018-05-16 by Bartholomew Barker

This poem was from this week’s Living Poetry Prompt, believe it or not. Who Needs Sight? I’d rather be blind than struck deaf. Vision is too distracting. I don’t need eyes in the back of my head to hear someone … Continue reading →

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