Tag Archives: poem

If you want to get on my good side

Posted on 2025-08-26 by Bartholomew Barker

Don’t bring me chocolate milky smooth and rich to coat my tongue Don’t bring me ice cream with a frosty spoon in a strawberry sundae Don’t bring me a pie whose crust crumbles over blueberried fingers Bring me potato chips … Continue reading →

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Sycophancy a Plus

Posted on 2025-08-13 by Bartholomew Barker

Consider this official notice that I’m firing the head WordPress statistician for BLATANTLY under reporting my views last month just because he doesn’t understand my AWESOME poetry. If you’d like to lead that department, apply in the comments below. Tell … Continue reading →

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Where’s the Remote?

Posted on 2025-08-11 by Bartholomew Barker

Guess I fell asleep on the couch and sleptwalked my way back to bed without recording any memories. Knifing my hands between cushions I find crumpled paper napkins, nacho cheese Doritos and a penny, which makes me wonder how Lincoln … Continue reading →

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What I Learned about Politics on the Ferry to Cape May

Posted on 2025-08-06 by Bartholomew Barker

We’re past the breakers. The sea swells and rolls like my innocent belly during this grey crossing. I enter the ferry lounge, hoping for a quiet place to sit and shut out the wavering world. But my best efforts to … Continue reading →

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The Day Is Done

Posted on 2025-08-04 by Bartholomew Barker

I squint because my pupils are dark as ripe walnuts on this midnight mission to the kitchen as the harsh light of the fridge bulb floods the tile floor. Rummage past the carrots, apples and leftover Chinese which I save … Continue reading →

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Summer Thunder

Posted on 2025-07-21 by Bartholomew Barker

The fireflies are hiding as the storm raves in. Momma gathers us into the house like church mice and hushes us down so God can do His work. No TV. No Radio. No chattering while the rain pelts loud on … Continue reading →

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Thoughtful Gifts Reed Infuser Inauguration

Posted on 2025-07-06 by Bartholomew Barker

Just wanted to make sure my dear readers are aware that my poem, Inauguration, was posted on the Chaos Section Poetry Project website yesterday as part of their promotion of the Record of Dissent anthology. Also one of my poems, … Continue reading →

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The Six Circles of Summer

Posted on 2025-06-30 by Bartholomew Barker

In the first circle mosquitoes suck the joy out of twilight In the second circle poison ivy wraps around our bare ankles In the third circle leaves wither on branches no shade from the sun In the fourth circle sweat … Continue reading →

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Thinking about War

Posted on 2025-06-23 by Bartholomew Barker

They keep it cold in the skyscrapers so the old men can wear their suit jackets. I escape into the real and heat seeps into my skin revealed by rolling up sleeves and relax in untamed air. But delicious thaw … Continue reading →

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Record of Dissent Published

Posted on 2025-06-16 by Bartholomew Barker

I am very proud to announce that The Chaos Section Poetry Project’s anthology, Record of Dissent: Poems of Protest in an Authoritarian Age — Summer 2025, has been published and it includes three of my political poems. I also have … Continue reading →

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