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Fraiku: Night Gems

Posted on 2022/07/15 by Bartholomew Barker

More diamonds and rubiesstrewn across the night skythan are found on Earth Photo from the JWST. To celebrate the Sorta-Sonnets posted on Whispers & Echoes, I stole two lines from each of the seven published works and made a pastiche … Continue reading →

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Looking Back

Posted on 2021/11/02 by Bartholomew Barker

Looking Backfor the James Webb Space Telescope Far past the dark side of the moonNever again to feel the warmthOf human breath or touch I need absolute cold for my workTo stare for days unblinkingSift light into colors Note the … Continue reading →

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Falling Free

Posted on 2021/04/12 by Bartholomew Barker

Instead of writing to someone else’s prompt, I wrote today’s poem for Yuri’s Night, the sixtieth anniversary of the first time we put a human in orbit. Falling Free Mission Control didn’t knowhow he’d react without weightso they locked the … Continue reading →

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Bury me with my Glasses

Posted on 2015/04/30 by Bartholomew Barker

The Science Cafe was packed tonight for the lecture on the Hubble Space Telescope’s 25th year in operation and the audience was very appreciative of our poetry. I combined the prompt below with the presentation and came up with my … Continue reading →

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Pale Blue Dot

Posted on 2015/04/25 by Bartholomew Barker

From the Poetic Asides blog: For today’s prompt, write an across the sea poem. This could be a love letter, an electronic submission through cyber space and time, or a travel poem (by air or sea, though probably not car). … Continue reading →

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