Tag Archives: night

Fraiku: Black Widow

Posted on 2024-08-23 by Bartholomew Barker

Spiderweb glistens under porcelain moonlight the silk nightgown dreams

Posted in Poetry | Tagged fraiku, gown, haiku, moon, night, silk, spider, web | 21 Comments

Hush

Posted on 2024-08-05 by Bartholomew Barker

Like the color of thunder or the taste of a song be like the snow falling at midnight in the woods where Robert Frost stopped then chose to keep going

Posted in Poetry | Tagged night, poem, snow, woods | 9 Comments

Midnights

Posted on 2024-07-30 by Bartholomew Barker

How many midnights have I spent in farmers’ fields or my backyard with a telescope, binoculars or my naked caveman eyes looking up at the stars, scanning the sky for meteors, digging deep through time into the swirl of a … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged astronomy, death, night, poem | 12 Comments

Fraiku: Nyx

Posted on 2024-03-29 by Bartholomew Barker

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 →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged astronomy, fraiku, haiku, night | 33 Comments

Thoughts while Floating Face Up

Posted on 2023-09-18 by Bartholomew Barker

Floating face up in a lake on an early autumn night If I don’t stare at the girl galaxy next door I can just see the smudge of Andromeda’s ancient light like a threadbare nightgown Ears underwater hear muffled details … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged astronomy, lake, night, poem, swim | 19 Comments

Fraiku: Astrophiliac

Posted on 2023-09-15 by Bartholomew Barker

New moon at midnight the lone light gracing your skin from the naked stars

Posted in Poetry | Tagged dark, fraiku, haiku, night, sexy | 10 Comments

Fraiku: Hope

Posted on 2023-09-08 by Bartholomew Barker

Is a stoplight at midnight blinking yellow on the puddle pocked road (Note: I couldn’t find a free stock image I liked so I had an AI generate this pic.)

Posted in Poetry | Tagged fraiku, haiku, night, rain, stoplight | 12 Comments

Fraiku: Traveling through the Dark

Posted on 2023-02-17 by Bartholomew Barker

I wonder what it’d be like to live where no blinking red lights marred the heroic night sky that never cared less (for William Stafford from whom I stole the title and the heroic sky that never cared less.)

Posted in Poetry | Tagged astronomy, fraiku, haiku, night, sky | 14 Comments

Fraiku: Night Sounds

Posted on 2022-08-12 by Bartholomew Barker

An orchestra of raspy wingsalmost covers the faint scrapeof paws padding nearby.

Posted in Poetry | Tagged fraiku, haiku, night, tanka, woods | 20 Comments

A Good Winter Night

Posted on 2022-01-05 by Bartholomew Barker

A Good Winter Night Unlike the impatient dawnwhich erupts upon the worldlike a chocolate covered cherry Sunset eases graceful silentand welcoming as an old bookby a fireplace in winter Sink into this well-worn couchput your feet in my laplet me … Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry | Tagged cherry, Chocolate, night, sunset, winter | 9 Comments