Tag Archives: halloween

Ringing Doorbells

Posted on 2023-10-30 by Bartholomew Barker

In hand-me-down costumes,Captain Hook one year,Peter Pan the next,Batmen and Stormtrooperscrunch through the autumn leaves. We scream trick-or-treat,pillowcases gaping,at the boring old adultwho opens his front doorand gives us toothbrushes. Whining back to the streetwe prepare toilet paperfor its final … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: By the Light of the Moon

Posted on 2023-10-27 by Bartholomew Barker

As roses sprout thorns the suave stranger smiles and her neck blooms crimson

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Fraiku: Migraine

Posted on 2023-10-20 by Bartholomew Barker

My brain is being carved from this throbbing skull like a jack-o’-lantern

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Fraiku: Every Halloween

Posted on 2023-10-06 by Bartholomew Barker

Despite my struggles, they cram me into some costume. Oh, the indignity.

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While Exploring Le Musée des Arcanes

Posted on 2022-10-31 by Bartholomew Barker

While Exploring Le Musée des Arcanes His eyes follow me around the cluttered room,this portrait of a man from another century—painted by a skilled hand, fine brushstrokesthough the artist neither signed the worknor identified their subject. I gaze into his … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Halloween

Posted on 2022-10-28 by Bartholomew Barker

Streetlight shadows dancelike a Witches’ Sabbatheyes glow under my bed

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Halloween Television

Posted on 2022-10-25 by Bartholomew Barker

Trick or Treaters have appeared not at my door but on TV The Democrats wearing scary masks faces twisted and darkened With Republicans in happy family man costumes pure as a newborn lamb in fresh fallen snow I’ve tried throwing … Continue reading →

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The Great Pumpkin Moon on Spillwords

Posted on 2022-10-22 by Bartholomew Barker

I’m pleased to announce that one of my Halloween Haiku, The Great Pumpkin Moon, was published over at Spillwords earlier today.

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Samhain on Spillwords

Posted on 2021-10-30 by Bartholomew Barker

Another of my Halloween poems for this year has been posted on Spillwords. It starts: Send the kids to trick or treatWith your parents tonightLet’s be alone when the wallsBetween the worlds grow thin Read the rest…

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Trick or Treat

Posted on 2021-10-26 by Bartholomew Barker

Here’s another collaboration with the good folks at Charles House. We reminisced about Halloweens of our youth, I read a few poems, including Poe’s The Raven (which technically isn’t a Halloween poem since he explicitly states that it occurs in … Continue reading →

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