Against the prevailing winds, this week let’s write an elated poem. It’s still important to be able to write even when you’re not feeling it so let’s try to focus on something good, really good, a memory or a hope for the future. Post your joy in the comments below.
About Bartholomew Barker
Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry lovers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. 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 makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
Living Poetry 
A pleasant breeze blows across the tower
where my final sputnik of love was lifted
a pillar of white marking her path above
and only quiet now, down here below
And I will sit with my feet in the waters of Ocracoke
watching them circle overhead
With a view of the still snow-covered Sangres to my right
And the dark green pinons of Capulin to my left
While a cool, dry breeze moves gently down from the col in-between
toward the chair where I sit
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Posted by Chris Clarke | June 29, 2020, 8:42 AMVery nice and wide ranging!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 29, 2020, 4:40 PMNicely done. I could sense a presence there.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 29, 2020, 6:03 PMI went to Shangri-la yesterday
no airlines, no psychedelic drugs
just four wheels and a flight of fancy.
From the child size stone town
we continued on to Yancyville,
adult size and tranquil.
Just a few miles down the road
and a few dozen years back
when simple joys were found
in garden corners and imagination.
Well worth the price of gas.
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Posted by JeanMarie | June 29, 2020, 6:43 PMSeems like a lovely roadtrip. Thanks!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 29, 2020, 7:38 PMI hope to visit that place soon. Just the pictures, alone, make me want to go even more. Beautiful words about taking a little trip to elation.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 30, 2020, 9:02 AMI wrote a short story and added my poem at the end. Here’s the link https://prolificpulse.blog/2020/06/30/elation/
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 30, 2020, 10:11 AMNice work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 30, 2020, 5:22 PMThank you!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | June 30, 2020, 5:28 PMPosted my poem to http://bartbarkerpoet.com/2020/06/30/pele-and-poets/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | June 30, 2020, 8:24 PM