Tag Archives: eclipse

In Medusa’s Kitchen

Posted on 2025-10-09 by Bartholomew Barker

I am pleased to announce that yesterday seven of my old poems visited Medusa’s Kitchen. If you’re new to my work, here’s a good place to check out these previously published pieces from the past decade, including one that got … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Penumbra

Posted on 2025-03-14 by Bartholomew Barker

Full moon in shadow presages a bloody year Justice eclipsed

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The Right Place at the Right Time

Posted on 2024-04-08 by Bartholomew Barker

Like getting ready for a second date, I hear a distant woodpecker drum a tree mocking my eager heart. As if ominous music begins to play, the grass turns emerald, the air amethyst and chill falls like a shadow. When … Continue reading →

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Postcards from the Path of Totality

Posted on 2024-04-07 by Bartholomew Barker

Like the land, I relax as we cross the great river and it flattens out for the eclipse. I’m talking like you’re in the passenger’s seat describing embarrassing childhood memories as I motor past my youth, the muddy creek in … Continue reading →

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Thoughts while Traffic is Slow

Posted on 2024-04-06 by Bartholomew Barker

Approaching the side of a mountain, at a few miles per hour, I watch cumulus clouds cast shadows on the land which move like the spots on a Harlequin Great Dane don’t. The shadow of a hawk or eagle swifts … Continue reading →

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Eclipse in the Tipton Poetry Journal

Posted on 2024-02-08 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m pleased to announce that my poem Eclipse has been republished in the Tipton Poetry Journal. My thanks to Barry Harris and the team. I wrote Eclipse in the aftermath of the total solar eclipse that passed through the States … Continue reading →

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Lunar Eclipse

Posted on 2023-04-15 by Bartholomew Barker

We cast a long shadow. Long enough to engulf our daughter moon who looks like a cratered white chocolate cookie full in the sky until a circular bite invades an edge and she’s consumed. Then she turns to blood but … Continue reading →

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Eclipse published at Sledgehammer Lit

Posted on 2021-12-20 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m proud to announce that my poem Eclipse has been published by the Sledgehammer Literary Journal. I like that they chose to post it on the day before the December Solstice since this little poem was inspired by another astronomical … Continue reading →

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Lunar Eclipse Fraiku

Posted on 2021-11-19 by Bartholomew Barker

Do not come betweenthe Sun and his daughter Moonlest there be blood

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Reminders

Posted on 2017-08-21 by Bartholomew Barker

I observed my first total solar eclipse today from a cemetery in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. It was quite impressive and I’m sure eclipses will be a theme in my poetry for the next several months. More on that later. … Continue reading →

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