This week, let’s write a merger poem. If you’re like me, you have more unfinished poems lazing around your hard drive than finished ones. Take two more-or-less at random and trying merging them together then post the amalgamation in the comments 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 
Great idea. I’ve just deleted some old junk and cleaned up a bit of the junk in there. Very inspiring! 😉
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Posted by JeanMarie | February 18, 2019, 11:37 AMI’m eager to read your mash-up.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 18, 2019, 5:17 PMfor some reason, unexplainable, I decided to merge time with simile:
Bad Time to Simile
Time will never come full circle
like a broken clock
Time will never catch me
like the bad guys in “Road Warrior”
Time is the past and present
like your great-aunt’s fruitcake
Time can be a stitch that saves 9
like 9 can’t save its confabulous self
Time to quit while I’m behind
like the poetry police with handcuffs
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Posted by Steve Croft | February 20, 2019, 1:08 PMFunny! The poetry police are always knocking on my door, asking questions.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 21, 2019, 9:24 PMYeah, I hope to stay off the Federal Bureau of Poetry’s “Most Wanted” list.
(wink)
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Posted by Steve Croft | February 22, 2019, 12:13 PM