This week let’s write an extraneous poem. I am of the opinion that a poem should have the precise number of words required, no more, no less, but we can still write about the extraneous things cluttering our lives. Post your hat on a cat 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.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | August 31, 2020, 7:24 PMAn excellent portrait. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 31, 2020, 8:12 PMThank you!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | August 31, 2020, 9:27 PMCrouched in the scraggly, wilted weeds
growing under the weathered, faded, splintered wooden fence
crouched a feral feline, dirty, bedraggled and thin.
A few hand painted ceramic bowls
of expensive, premium cat food
he had been trapped and transformed
into a floufy, poufy, prince of a puss.
Author’s note: I needed every one of these adjectives. Not a one is “extraneous.”
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Posted by JeanMarie | September 1, 2020, 3:26 AMWell done!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 1, 2020, 6:50 AMThe way to a man’s heart is through his stomach. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 1, 2020, 7:18 PM