This week let’s write a form poem. Choose any form you’d like but be strict with yourself. Bonus points awarded for poems in a form you’ve never written before. Check out this list of forms and post your 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 
Viktor Shklovsky, who held that the form
brought affective estrangement of object from norm,
was compelled to reform the position he’d spoken;
estranged from objects thence in affects broken.
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | October 8, 2018, 8:13 AMNicely done. Thanks for mentioning Shklovsky. I hadn’t run across him before.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 8, 2018, 7:28 PMIt’s a formal poem about formalism! 🤣
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | October 9, 2018, 11:29 AMBlog plug: https://thatsnotsoutherngothic.com
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | October 9, 2018, 3:25 PMWriter’s Digest has a regular article about a new form. I have saved those articles and will perhaps try one of those. Nice idea.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | October 8, 2018, 4:23 PMI look forward to seeing what you come up with.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 8, 2018, 7:29 PMTo place a bully, rapist judge
in highest court, congress fudged
Government corrupted
A nation disgusted
So, Vote and don’t hold a grudge
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Posted by JeanMarie | October 8, 2018, 6:21 PMA brilliant and timely limerick! Love it!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 8, 2018, 7:29 PMHere’s a political sonnet:
Once Upon a Time
A man could raise a family,
pay off a mortgage
and take a nice vacation
every year on a single salary.
That’s where I was raised,
that quaint country called America.
It wasn’t perfect, just ask the blacks,
homosexuals and secretaries,
but at least the rich paid more in taxes
than the poor and, while politicians
disagreed, we didn’t doubt their motives,
most of the time, only their methods.
But that was before democracy died
and truth was lost in the big money tide.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 8, 2018, 8:41 PM