This week let’s write a poem based on an idiom. Take an idiom like “beating a dead horse”, “easy as pie” or “wild goose chase” then expand upon it poetically, maybe even improve upon it. Preach to the choir 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 
A prompt as right as rain!
Wither thou goes, I go too.
We sink or swim together.
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Posted by JeanMarie | September 14, 2020, 5:57 PMAll for one and one for all. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 14, 2020, 7:04 PMExcellent! “Sink and swim together”
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 20, 2020, 10:46 AMHere’s my idiom poem: https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2020/09/14/government-of-idioms/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 14, 2020, 11:34 PMThis cat had my tongue once and long ago
He was a feisty one with long, skinny legs
If I wanted to, I could have made him go
As he wasn’t worth the time to my age
Amazingly I am a survivor of those days
When old, lost souls captured my heart
As I got older, I was less than amazed
When I heard the stories of such bad starts
A cat had my tongue and pulled on it hard
He thought he had me set up for his plans
What he didn’t know I would send him so far
He wouldn’t notice it was all in my hands
A lesson to learn and pay close attention
When you let the cat go, it’s by your intention
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 20, 2020, 10:45 AMLovely sonnet! Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | September 20, 2020, 11:27 AMThank you! It was fun!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | September 20, 2020, 11:35 AM