This week let’s write a tiny poem. Is there a minimum number of words needed for a poem? I think so but what do I know? I think it’ll be more interesting to write a regular-sized poem about something tiny. Post your baby 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 
labyrinth walking
meditating peacefully
tiny black bugs attached to my skin
naturally my left breast
painful as they were for me
I had to think they had thoughts
perhaps I was wrong
to be walking in their space
after all, it’s true
bugs have the right to remain
silent until deadly
I’m still breathing
gonna tell you this
they are not
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | November 11, 2019, 8:51 AMI hope that’s not a true story. Ouch! One more reason not to go outside! 🙂
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Posted by JeanMarie | November 11, 2019, 2:08 PMI am afraid it is. It took a long time to not feel pain in that spot.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | November 11, 2019, 3:06 PMugh. None the less, I applaud your conversion of pain into poetry.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 11, 2019, 7:35 PMThank you!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | November 11, 2019, 10:57 PMA Tiny Poem
is full stop an ending
ending in a dot
a dot of minuscule
minuscule holds the power of an ending
an ending of a life
a life springs from the ending
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | November 13, 2019, 7:57 PMI like this one. Excellent use of repetition and it’s almost a little loop. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 14, 2019, 8:20 AMThank you! That means a lot!
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | November 14, 2019, 11:06 AM