This week let’s write a remedy poem. Have you been vaccinated yet? Fully, partially or not at all, it doesn’t matter to the poetry. Post your fix to what ails you 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 
there has to be a remedy
for loneliness
perhaps a puppy
or a kitten
but not everyone
can have a pet
a stuffed animal
for this grown man
well, I just don’t know
if he would like that
a note card with a poem
a letter signed with love
a phone call, please speak up
a visit with a lot of hugs
a peck on the cheek
whatever it takes
to make him smile
he told me he is alone
he told me he is sad
he told me he is lonely
remedies mean so much
for whatever ails us
now, to find the answer
to help this elderly man
feel happy
a remedy for sadness
priceless
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | May 10, 2021, 2:16 PMVery sweet. There’s a lot of loneliness to remedy in this world. Glad you’re doing your part.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 10, 2021, 5:48 PMThank you.
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | May 11, 2021, 7:33 AMNice poem Lisa. That’s about Bart right?
ha ha
….. runs away …..
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Posted by JeanMarie | May 12, 2021, 1:08 AMIt will be.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 12, 2021, 5:42 PMROFL I about spit out my tea!
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | May 13, 2021, 6:26 PMRemedy
He is a remedy for disaster
always in for the spur of the moment
lack of structure
inability to follow instructions
trigger happy is his signature
a tiny cell in the marfia organism
domino effect till the world rots
in total surrender
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | May 11, 2021, 6:32 AMNice. What an “interesting” character.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 11, 2021, 6:05 PMI think I watched too much gangster movies lately…
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | May 11, 2021, 6:09 PMCassa Bassa! This gansta! Did you mean “recipe for disaster”? 🙂
Love the “tiny cell in the mafia organism” line!
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Posted by JeanMarie | May 12, 2021, 1:06 AM😃
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | May 12, 2021, 4:07 AMRemedy for the Pandemic
I got my covid shot
not one but two
It didn’t hurt a lot
How about you
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Posted by JeanMarie | May 12, 2021, 1:09 AMRemedy for a Roommate
Get out. Go away.
Shut up and leave me alone.
I don’t want you here
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Posted by JeanMarie | May 12, 2021, 1:10 AMRemedy for Love
Give up. It doesn’t exist.
You don’t need a remedy.
Love is like food.
Without it you starve.
Let me die a glutton
sated by an endless buffet
of lovers.
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Posted by JeanMarie | May 12, 2021, 1:26 AMWow. Three Remedies! I like this one (Remedy for Love) the best.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 12, 2021, 5:43 PMPosted a Remedy Haiku here: https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2021/05/13/remedy-haiku/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 13, 2021, 8:35 PM