Tag Archives: prose poem

Love Letters

Posted on 2024-07-15 by Bartholomew Barker

My high school sweetheart and I broke up over the summer due to the vicissitudes of young romance but my college roommate’s girlfriend would sent him love letters on scented paper. Envious, I’d sneak a sniff when he was out … Continue reading →

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Les Fleurs du mal

Posted on 2021-04-09 by Bartholomew Barker

To honor Charles Baudelaire on his 200th birthday, I wrote a prose poem from Robert Lee Brewer’s Write Better Poetry blog: For today’s prompt, write a persona poem for an inanimate object. A persona poem is when you write a … Continue reading →

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