
This week let’s write a judgement poem. Did anyone notice I forgot to post a prompt last Monday? I’m guilty. Pass your sentence in the comments 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.
The leader denied the readers their prompt
Did he forget or with work was he swamped?
What punishment shall fit?
To be fair but also legit?
One week without the grapes that are stomped!
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 17, 2018, 3:43 PMExcellent though the punishment would be counterproductive.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 17, 2018, 5:31 PMNo š· for you!šš
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 17, 2018, 5:49 PMIn ancient Greek ‘kritik’ stood for bothĀ
subjective criticism and objective judgement.
‘Krisis’ was a legal term denoting civic order.
In Latin it came to mean the moment before judgement.
Crisis.
Crisis and judgement are connected.
For Aristotle, crisis is perpetual in political society.Ā
For Christianity, worldly crisis deferredĀ
means perpetual crisis of conscience.Ā
Medical ‘crisis’ once included symptoms and diagnosis,Ā
divided between perfect and imperfect (possibility of relapse), acute and chronic. Crisis. Critical. Judgement.
17th century, a fresh application of the medical terminology
Ā to the ‘body politic’
Edmund Burke’s ‘crisis’ closer to medical,Ā
Thomas Paine’s closer to theological.Ā
Similarly, while you see the shift to theological meaningĀ
from 1627-1714 in the form of Rudyerd, Baillie and Steele,Ā
or Parliamentarian, Covenentor and Whig,Ā
the theological tone in Rousseau is counteredĀ
by what seems to be a silenceĀ
where you might expect to find a predecessorĀ
to Burke – Hobbes.
What was Hobbes’ judgement?
Crisis. Critical. Chronic. Acute.
Body. Polis. Theos. Judgement.
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Posted by Jeremy Ray Jewell | December 17, 2018, 9:41 PM