Sunday’s prompt from the Poetic Asides blog. We’re two-thirds of the way through the month. It’s getting tough but stick to it!
For today’s prompt, write a sketch poem. My initial thought is to write a poem that’s like a sketch of a moment or an object. But you can play around with sketchy people or situations. Or just sketch something else together.
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.
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the prompt says, “like a sketch of a moment,” so…
Moment
The wings-flutter of a bird stunned
by the invisible of the sliding glass door
in your cupped hands, its sudden flight
making you gasp and look at the sky
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Posted by Steve Croft | April 22, 2019, 1:44 PMVery nice! Love the “stunned by the invisible”.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | April 22, 2019, 10:57 PM