This week let’s write a compromise poem. Never compromise in your poetry but post the results below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is an organizer of Living Poetry, a collection of poets in the Triangle region of North Carolina where he has hosted a monthly feedback workshop 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 a Pushcart Prize in 2021. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he lives and writes poetry.
Living Poetry 
I’m bored.
I’m tired.
Let’s go get something to eat.
What about China Garden?
I was thinking about burgers.
We could just get popcorn at the movies.
There’s a new action flick at the multi-plex.
I want to see the new comedy.
Netflix?
Pizza?
Happy Anniversary Honey.
You too sweetheart.
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Posted by JeanMarie | August 28, 2018, 3:49 AMNice work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 28, 2018, 10:19 AMThanks. 😊 It’s good to get a little POD practice.
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Posted by JeanMarie | August 28, 2018, 12:19 PMI cut down an editor once.
He was riding the fence with Baal and
I was playing Elijah in the hallway,
shanked him with a piece of pottery
from la Ciudadela, a painted cat,
and I smashed it over his head afterwards.
I said you got some interesting points, bucko,
and maybe now you’ve got mine.
Of course, it was no kind of compromise for the painted cat.
We drank pulques and micheladas in
the Plaza Garibaldi until the policia came.
Such is the fate of the prophets.
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | August 29, 2018, 7:00 PMFun! Love the last line. Thanks!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 29, 2018, 10:30 PMhttps://thatsnotsoutherngothic.wordpress.com
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | August 30, 2018, 12:11 AMThe way the tide and the seashore
each leave space for the other,
breathing in,
breathing out
regardless of circumstance.
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Posted by mkfruga | August 29, 2018, 10:13 PMBeautiful image and a wonderful first two lines. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 29, 2018, 10:32 PM