This week let’s write an attraction poem. Magnets, gravity, moths to flames, we live in a world of attraction. Post your attractive poem in the comments below.
(Bonus points for including the $50 word “cynosure” and making it sound natural.)
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 
What was it about you that caught my eye?
Maybe it was your gentle smile.
It reminds me of my favorite music video and makes me
perk up each time I see it.
Maybe it was those eyes that looked like the most beautiful blue waterfalls that were created.
I get lost like a stranger in the woods every time I look at them and you.
This isn’t just a physical attraction,
but maybe it should just stay that.
I heard that opposites attract, but I must repel.
It ain’t fair.
No, it ain’t fair at all.
My heart aches when I think that about how much my feelings for you hurt.
You’re like my brightest dreams I see at night.
I badly want to become one with the unconscious visions,
but I simply can’t.
I have many years of love stored up in my heart, and if you could be mine,
I’d make you my cynosure.
I’m confident that you would do the same.
Sadly, we’ll only ever do this in my dreams.
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Posted by Mia J | February 15, 2021, 10:32 AMLovely and you score bonus points. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 15, 2021, 7:17 PMThank you so much!!
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Posted by Mia J | February 15, 2021, 7:46 PMThis takes the reader on a wonderful trip through many facets of attraction. Well done!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 17, 2021, 7:18 PMDelicious in my thoughts
generated from the memories
of the bittersweet allure
when the juices of those beautiful
and fragrant beans
create the aromas which attract me
to the possibilities of a new day
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 17, 2021, 7:22 PMWell brewed!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 17, 2021, 7:26 PMThank you!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 18, 2021, 7:10 PMWe circle each other
in a dance unseen
by world outside the veil
impenetrable
if we had eyes
they’d be locked on each other
at the cynosure of love
the invisible monopole
keeping us safe from time
forever
not by destroying it
but because it never existed
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Posted by Chris Clarke | February 18, 2021, 5:12 PMLove the first stanza!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 18, 2021, 5:23 PMLovely, well done.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | February 18, 2021, 7:11 PM