Tag Archives: Shakespeare

Midnight

Posted on 2024/04/18 by Bartholomew Barker

Rain on the tinroof drowses me to sleep in a brave new world of annual thousand-year floods this summer tempest will be what dreams are made of For Sammi’s Weekend Writing Prompt: Tempest.

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Fraiku: Shakespeare

Posted on 2023/03/24 by Bartholomew Barker

Did you know, when you wrote, “Lord, what fools these mortals be!” that you were not among us?   Inspired by the Bard himself, who’s still making news.

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Brevity, with apologies to William Shakespeare

Posted on 2022/06/29 by Bartholomew Barker

Brevity It’s the soul of witor a bowl of spitcan’t remember (for Sammi Cox’s Weekend Writing Prompt, “Brevity” in 12 words.) If you missed this past Sunday’s FUMFA Poets & Writers Live, you can still watch it on YouTube. I … Continue reading →

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Well Desserted

Posted on 2016/09/26 by Bartholomew Barker

That chocolate sonnet of mine that Parody published last month just appeared on their blog. Check it out!  

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Tranquil Excitement

Posted on 2015/04/26 by Bartholomew Barker

From the Poetic Asides blog: For today’s prompt, take a word or two invented by William Shakespeare, make it the title of your poem, and write your poem. Click here for a link to some words coined by Shakespeare, who … Continue reading →

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Chocolate Open Mic

Posted on 2013/12/13 by Bartholomew Barker

Next Thursday the 19th I’ll be reading at a Holiday Chocolate Open Mic in festive downtown Hillsborough, North Carolina. I haven’t decided which poems I’ll share this time but here’s one of the chocolate sonnets I read earlier this year. … Continue reading →

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