Tag Archives: Solstice

Fraiku: Summer Solstice

Posted on 2025-06-20 by Bartholomew Barker

Let’s turn up the heat under the moneyed elites and march in the streets Happy June Solstice! (Sorry about the rhymes.)

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Working on the Solstice

Posted on 2024-12-21 by Bartholomew Barker

The sun logged off early this afternoon, shutdown and packed up his desk for the year and I’m fine with that. I get more done when the bosses are out of the office. Venus stops by my cube to flirt … Continue reading →

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Solstice Insomnia

Posted on 2024-06-20 by Bartholomew Barker

This far from the equator the sky is shades of grey clouds drifting from the firth or the solstice sun drowsing just below the horizon for only a few hours I am reminded of the injustice of being sent to … Continue reading →

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Winter Solstice Sonnet 2023

Posted on 2023-12-21 by Bartholomew Barker

I met a golden retriever on my walk. He couldn’t articulate it but he knew. I could tell by his wag and fluffed up fur, it’s the shortest day of the year. The chickadees know it. Their frantic upending of … Continue reading →

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Winter Begins

Posted on 2022-12-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Winter Begins We’re all in trouble if the Sunkeeps sinking earlier and rising later No thaw in the Earth— no planting in springno harvest in autumn just a night with no dawn Snow piles higher— rivers freeze to their bedsand … Continue reading →

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Fraiku for the Sunset

Posted on 2022-06-17 by Bartholomew Barker

Day stretches out like a deserttoo long — too longsun grinding me down

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Summer Haiku

Posted on 2021-06-21 by Bartholomew Barker

These verdant mountainsfeasting on solstice sunshineand a thunderstorm For today’s Solstice Poetry Prompt from Living Poetry.

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Winter Solstice Sonnet

Posted on 2020-12-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Winter Solstice Sonnet I’ve lived where the solstice airfreezes onto my mustache.Where daylight is a vague glowbehind clouds of dirty slush. I’ve felt that deep ancestral fearthat the sun has given upand we’ll all shiver solid,defeated by the menacing dark. … Continue reading →

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December Solstice

Posted on 2015-12-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Happy Solstice, dear readers! The chocolate holiday open mic was a delight. It was standing room only in Matthew’s. We shared two bottles of wine, a couple dozen poems and almost as many truffles. To celebrate the longest night of … Continue reading →

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Rage, rage against the dying of the light

Posted on 2014-12-21 by Bartholomew Barker

Happy Solstice, dear readers! On this most ancient and most human holiday, the sun in the Piedmont set very close to the moment of the Solstice. But don’t worry, I lit a candle on my desk so I’m sure the … Continue reading →

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