Tag Archives: fraiku

Fraiku: Winter Walk

Posted on 2022/01/21 by Bartholomew Barker

Frozen footfalls crunchBundled like an astronautIgnored by the sun

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Fraiku: Addiction

Posted on 2022/01/14 by Bartholomew Barker

Shoulders sigh with contentmentas dark elixircools my anxious throat

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Fraiku: January Tree

Posted on 2022/01/07 by Bartholomew Barker

Bare branches shiverunder winter starslike a hand without a glove

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Fraiku: Year End Review

Posted on 2021/12/31 by Bartholomew Barker

I hate “best of” listsEspecially when they’re by yearLook ahead instead Happy New Year, dear readers!

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Fraiku: Christmas Eve

Posted on 2021/12/24 by Bartholomew Barker

In still winter airpinprick stars on strings danglethe dome of heaven

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Fraiku: Tinnitus

Posted on 2021/12/17 by Bartholomew Barker

Like a tuning forkburrowing into my earsthat can’t be unheard

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Fraiku: Michael Nesmith

Posted on 2021/12/10 by Bartholomew Barker

Liquid paper heirWool hat guy with a twelve-stringRepo Producer So it goes…

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Fraiku inspired by Blade Runner

Posted on 2021/12/03 by Bartholomew Barker

I write them downso my words won’t be lostlike tears in rain

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Fraiku: Sweeney Todd

Posted on 2021/11/26 by Bartholomew Barker

Ruby words drip from the penRestored to my hand by his masterpieceAt last my arm is complete (Words mostly stolen from Sweeney Todd to honor Stephen Sondheim. So it goes.)

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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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