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bartholomew barker poet poets lie all the time but there are some truths only poetry can tell bartholomew barker poet poets lie all the time but there are some truths only poetry can tell skip to content curriculum vitae poetry books about contact me links of interest older posts dandelion s lament posted on 2026 08 03 by bartholomew barker poets always gush about the daffodils ignoring my brilliant petals though they re happy enough to drink my wine a collaboration with my friends at mebane ridge after we read a bunch of flower themed poetry including wordsworth blake and shakur posted in poetry tagged flower mebane ridge poem leave a comment fraiku vs ai posted on 2026 07 31 by bartholomew barker a steel driving man dies with a hammer in his hand i am john henry posted in poetry tagged ai artificial fraiku haiku intelligence 2 comments i want to be a tree when i grow up at spillwords posted on 2026 07 29 by bartholomew barker i am pleased to announce that an old poem of mine i want to be a tree when i grow up was just published at spillwords here are the first three lines as a teaser i want to be a tree when i grow up nothing ostentatious i don t want to be a sequoia or have some historical significance click the link above to read the rest and give the spillwords heart a click if so moved posted in poetry tagged dandelion poem publication sunflower tree 22 comments one night sonnet posted on 2026 07 27 by bartholomew barker our romance was a summer storm you the lightning me the thunder i hesitated worried until fingers played in my chest hair and i growled in that exquisite ear your back arched like a bolt across the night sky and floods came sweeping away debris clearing storm drains of trivialities gone as the clouds revealed the stars your memory lingers in the morning sun a humid mist rising from the pavement i never thought i d live this long without you for the monday poetry prompt and the muse who ll never read what she inspired posted in poetry tagged love poem regret sonnet 16 comments fraiku pain posted on 2026 07 24 by bartholomew barker like lightning crackles down my legs sparked from clenched eyes posted in poetry tagged chronic fraiku haiku lightning pain 14 comments markings posted on 2026 07 20 by bartholomew barker my ancestor stenciled her hand onto the wall of a cave in ochre several thousand years ago her mark still visible today neil armstrong left the first footprint in the lunar regolith and his mark remains unsullied after more than fifty years but we bulldoze mountains dam rivers foul the air to leave our marks like carving our names on a tree with knives that poison the wood maybe i should stop printing poetry books continue reading posted in poetry tagged cave painting moon landing poem 10 comments fraiku absinthe like poetry posted on 2026 07 17 by bartholomew barker cannot be poured from bottle to glass it needs sugar i recommend the french method of absinthe preparation posted in poetry tagged alcohol ars poetica bitter fraiku haiku 6 comments for grief at ephemeral elegies posted on 2026 07 16 by bartholomew barker i am proud to announce that my poem for grief was just published by the resurrected ephemeral elegies the first two lines are the aloe bloomed as soon as i was alone in the hospital elevator i encourage all my readers to check out the rest of my poem and the others published there thanks tiffany posted in poetry tagged grief nature poem publication recovery 6 comments memento mori in the blotter posted on 2026 07 13 by bartholomew barker i am pleased to announce that my new poem memento mori has been published in the july august 2026 issue of the blotter magazine it s free to download the pdf so check it out like most of poems it starts in a tree to smell the blossoms from the inside as i clamber up the dogwood s low limbs earthy odor fills my skull posted in poetry tagged death poem publication 27 comments fraiku now that you re gone posted on 2026 07 10 by bartholomew barker i still hear your voice like an all night radio broadcast from a city far far away posted in poetry tagged absent fraiku grief haiku radio 8 comments older posts search for recent posts dandelion s lament 2026 08 03 fraiku vs ai 2026 07 31 i want to be a tree when i grow up at spillwords 2026 07 29 one night sonnet 2026 07 27 fraiku pain 2026 07 24 markings 2026 07 20 fraiku absinthe like poetry 2026 07 17 for grief at ephemeral elegies 2026 07 16 memento mori in the blotter 2026 07 13 categories brazil 2014 dead ancestors dead poets dead presidents dublin 2022 ephemera london 2018 poetry scotland 2016 scotland 2024 meta create account log in entries feed comments feed wordpress com follow bartholomew via email enter your email address to receive notifications of new posts by email email address follow join 1 902 other subscribers blog at wordpress com home about contact me curriculum vitae events genealogy links of interest poetry books subscribe subscribed bartholomew barker 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