Tag Archives: equinox

Autumnal Equinox 2025

Posted on 2025-09-22 by Bartholomew Barker

Egg balanced on railroad tracks white as a late summer cloud delicate as democracy An iron train rumbles in like a storm soon to obliterate the inner sun rusted leaves swirling litter behind A lumpy swamp-colored walnut crashes to the … Continue reading →

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Spring Equinox 2025

Posted on 2025-03-20 by Bartholomew Barker

Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,~ W. B. Yeats, The Second Coming, 1919   Our planet spins faster and I’m being pulled off into outer space But today it’s easier to cling to … Continue reading →

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Balanced

Posted on 2024-09-22 by Bartholomew Barker

The heat of the day the cool of the night The sun and the moon on opposite sides of the sky The world spins under our feet I unfold my arms to welcome autumn Balanced on the edge of a … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Autumnal Equinox

Posted on 2023-09-22 by Bartholomew Barker

Leave windows open Night drops gentle as a leaf Breathe deep ‘fore the plunge (The equinox arrives in eight hours. For me autumn begins but I’ll wish my readers south of the equator a Happy Spring!)

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Hopelessly in Love with Spring

Posted on 2023-03-20 by Bartholomew Barker

“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 →

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Fraiku: Kiss

Posted on 2022-03-18 by Bartholomew Barker

I lean towards your faceas the Earth tilts to the Sunand Spring draws near

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Fraiku: Equinox

Posted on 2021-09-24 by Bartholomew Barker

Sun skims horizon one last dayin the Arctic— a failed experimentto untilt the planet   (For this week’s Living Poetry Prompt, though I only used two of the three words supplied and, of course, Wednesday’s Equinox. Happy Autumn to my … Continue reading →

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Pink Confetti

Posted on 2021-03-20 by Bartholomew Barker

Pink Confetti from the eastern redbudlitters the parking lotwhere I walk a tightropeof concrete wheel stopslike the boy I was long agoconfident as a balanced eggthat the tilt of the earthwon’t pull me askewthis first day of spring Happy March … Continue reading →

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Happy Equinox!

Posted on 2020-09-22 by Bartholomew Barker

I celebrated the September Equinox with a virtual visit to Charles House to talk autumnal poetry with the folks there. We spent the last fifteen minutes composing one of our own and it turned out pretty good so I stole … Continue reading →

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