This week let’s write a rejection poem. As poets we get used to rejection but let’s pick at that scab and write something heartrending. Post your tragic results below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, where he has hosted monthly workshops for more than decade. His first poetry collection, Wednesday Night Regular, written in and about strip clubs, was published in 2013. His second, Milkshakes and Chilidogs, a chapbook of food inspired poetry was served in 2017. He was nominated for the Pushcart Prize in 2021, 2024 & 2025 as well as the Best of the Net Anthology in 2024. His work has appeared in The Lake, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, the Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others.
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Ok, here’s mine…
Venial “heartfelt” verse
Your rhyme scheme couldn’t be worse
Doggerel’s your curse.
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Posted by bilocalalia - talking about living in two places | January 16, 2018, 10:10 AMAnd now I can’t stop! I’ve posted another one on my blog: https://bilocalalia.wordpress.com/2018/01/16/what-the-wizard-said-to-the-poet/
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Posted by bilocalalia - talking about living in two places | January 16, 2018, 1:47 PMThis is a good one even though critique groups are critical if you want to improve your work.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | January 16, 2018, 7:34 PMCool poem. It sounds just like something the Wizard would say from the classic Wizard of Oz.
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Posted by JeanMarie | January 23, 2018, 7:55 PMThanks, and I finally looked up the word caliginous!
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Posted by bilocalalia - talking about living in two places | January 23, 2018, 8:15 PM