Another visual poetry prompt courtesy JeanMarie Olivieri.
You know what to do.
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.
Living Poetry
The somber ombre sky of fading summer storms
a grey echo of our wedding day
Stale and frozen cascading roses
a sickly-sweet reminder of the future
crushed before the buds ripened.
I leave the cake topper on your grave
Happy Anniversary Darling
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Posted by JeanMarie | June 3, 2019, 3:12 PMWow. That’s so sad. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 3, 2019, 7:56 PMAww so sadly sweet. Love it!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 4, 2019, 7:58 PMThanks Lisa!
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Posted by JeanMarie | June 10, 2019, 3:06 PMThis is awesome
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Posted by Lizzi | June 10, 2019, 1:31 PMThanks Lizzi.
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Posted by JeanMarie | June 10, 2019, 3:06 PMThanks. Does it hold up in meaning without the picture? I’m always so literal with these things! ha ha! I suppose I could change the “wedding day” to “wedding cake”…
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Posted by JeanMarie | June 3, 2019, 9:48 PMYes, it totally works without the picture.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 3, 2019, 10:03 PMHe called her Rose Bud
Tasting the sweetness he loved
No longer weeping
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 4, 2019, 7:09 PMNice little haiku. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 4, 2019, 7:12 PMThank you!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 4, 2019, 7:58 PMI like this. Plus, great use of the prompt as a jump off to something wholly different. Note to self: don’t be so literal!
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Posted by JeanMarie | June 10, 2019, 3:05 PMThanks!!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 10, 2019, 8:28 PM