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Monday Poetry Prompt: Split the Difference

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This week let’s write a split the difference poem. No need for separate checks, we’ll keep is simple. Post your work below.

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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.

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3 thoughts on “Monday Poetry Prompt: Split the Difference”

  1. Steve Croft's avatar

    I think of an atom — with the enduring stateliness of nature behind it…

    Ataraxia

    If beliefs were atoms we were immune
    from despair — the mystery of the living world
    would reveal all in the rushing of water, the vapors
    from a forest floor, even a growing wildfire
    blackening the souls of trees, so wild and merciless,
    just an excited wonder sweeping us to the great
    joining/unjoining, throats become hoarse
    singing our pressure waves of joy.

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    Posted by Steve Croft | January 14, 2019, 12:24 PM
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  2. Steve Croft's avatar

    Thanks — with the idea that splitting can be destruction, I guess. Glad I happened on your site.

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    Posted by Steve Croft | January 15, 2019, 12:08 PM
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