Tag Archives: summer

Hope I’m only an Imagist

Posted on 2025-08-18 by Bartholomew Barker

I am delighted to report that two of my poems have been published today. Hope posted to the revived Whispers and Echoes. Thanks, Sammi! I adapted the first line, A little bird slammed into my window, mistaking it for the … 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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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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Fraiku: Summer Air

Posted on 2024-07-26 by Bartholomew Barker

Beads on skin like a can of coke am I the drinker or the drink

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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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Fraiku: On The Menu

Posted on 2023-08-04 by Bartholomew Barker

Sweaty summer day jalapeño rice demands an ice cream desert

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Summer Evening Sonnet

Posted on 2023-06-26 by Bartholomew Barker

When the sun stays up late because it isn’t a school night, we spend the evenings playing outside, a pack of neighborhood kids tossing a baseball, football, Frisbee, whatever isn’t stuck on a roof or disappeared down a storm drain. … Continue reading →

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Fraiku: Summer Triangle

Posted on 2023-06-09 by Bartholomew Barker

A swan — An eagle The lyre of Orpheus Nights warm but all too brief

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The Secret Life of Fireflies

Posted on 2023-06-05 by Bartholomew Barker

After a day of sprinkler runningunder the glistening sundark clouds swoop in from the westwith a sudden chilling air. A flash in the darkened skyand thunder menaces from afar.The storm drapes and drenches the grasscompleting our rain dance. With a … Continue reading →

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