This week let’s write a bottleneck poem. There’s plenty of inspiration to be found in a bottle but sometimes it all comes at once. Maybe a traffic poem or the three stooges going through a door or maybe that delicate tapering shape will prompt something. Post what pours out 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.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 30, 2019, 6:17 PMVery nice. I was wondering if the bottleneck would appear then there it is at the very end.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 30, 2019, 8:35 PMThank you
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 30, 2019, 10:19 PMgreetings and hugs from LA thanks for the opportunity ❤
out pour
hold
your breath
easy now
that’s good like that
i like it when you
tense up and move wildly
oh see there the moon blushes
together lets hold the dam back
slow down some don’t give in too quickly
in a few moments the lightning will strike
mbrazfieldm (c) 2019
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Posted by mbrazfieldm | October 1, 2019, 12:33 AMVivid! I love this!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | October 1, 2019, 7:16 AMThank you Lisa 😊
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Posted by mbrazfieldm | October 1, 2019, 8:37 AMExcellent work! Love the last line.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 1, 2019, 9:00 PMThank you friend ✌❤
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Posted by mbrazfieldm | October 1, 2019, 9:02 PM