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Fraiku: Campus
Listen the protestors, unkempt, thin and idealistic, they are usually right.
Fraiku: Grumpy
Asked my doctor why I’m sneezing and bashful She prescribed happy pills but they make me sleepy At least I don’t get dopey For today’s prompt, pick an emotion, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem.
Fraiku: The Lord’s been good to me
Dreamt I was Johnny Appleseed planting nurseries — wearing a tin pot hat Then I woke up in the cupboard again Three prompts inspired today’s haiku: Today, we’d like to challenge you to write a poem that plays with the … Continue reading
Fraiku: Telling Time
Face fading digitless hands still feeling unwound For today’s prompt, take the phrase “Tell (blank),” replace the blank with a new word or phrase, make the new phrase the title of your poem, and then, write your poem. Craft a … Continue reading
Fraiku: Nyx
This week’s Fraiku was published earlier today at Heretics, Lovers & Madmen in response to their Dark Mother prompt. I titled it Nyx after the Greek Goddess of the Night. I’ll be starting my 13th April Poem-a-day Challenge on Monday. … Continue reading
Fraiku: Sunny Side
Arise ye dawns of spring like daffodils to the clouds and eggs from the pan (This haiku was inspired by a poem I wrote this week with my pals at Charles House when one of the participants made the brilliant … Continue reading
Fraiku: Audre Lorde
I am not one thing each aspect a note in a chord and I am the song For Women’s History Month, a haiku for the great Audre Lorde, 1934-1992. She described herself as a “black, lesbian, feminist, socialist, mother, warrior, … Continue reading
Fraiku: for Vinny
Pain burns the candle flames melt the mind at both ends until it ends… (For Women’s History Month, a haiku inspired by Edna St. Vincent Millay and her most famous poem, First Fig. She was in near constant pain the … Continue reading
Fraiku: March Wind
Mother Nature’s sneeze coughing instead of sleeping nights ever shorter (Spring will be here soon enough here in my corner of the planet. There are already pink blossoms on the trees and that means the pollen won’t be far behind.)
Fraiku: Phillis Wheatley
Then fate drew the sable curtain of night on your meteoric life For Black History Month, a haiku to honor Phillis Wheatley, 1753-1784, the first African-American to publish a book of poetry. I stole the middle line from her lovely … Continue reading
Bartholomew Barker, Poet 