
This week let’s write a humbug poem. There’s a sucker born every minute. How many of them are poets? Post your answer 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.
Never Trust a Gargoyle
That’s Not a Waterspout
Gargoyles protect
so the saying goes
scaring off evil spirits
& saving brick mortar
by shooting rain
from their nose
But if a knock at the door
shows a gargoyle about,
gargoyles don’t visit,
step down from their mount,
hold fast the door —
the goblins are out!
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Posted by Steve Croft | May 14, 2019, 2:00 PMPosturing, though they may
they don’t have much to say
much as they babble
and spend much on travel
they don’t have legs
just golden eggs
Bah hack
take it all back
you don’t know the truth
you’re bound to lose
my hair is fine and shiny
and I am great at whiney
Trickery is so hot
you might just beat the clock
despair I won’t
because you don’t
have the steam to make
for the change it takes
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | May 14, 2019, 3:49 PM