Over the weekend, my fellow Living Poet and regular prompeteer JeanMarie Olivieri and I both had poems inspired by the Climate Crisis published at the Extinction Rebellion Creative Hub, so for this week’s prompt, let’s write a Climate Crisis poem. Feel free to post your poem in the comment below. XR happily accepts previously published work. It’s just about the least you can do as a poet.
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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Congratulations B!
https://xrcreative.org/2021/07/11/lost-worlds/
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Posted by JeanMarie | July 12, 2021, 1:24 PMCongratulations to you too!
https://xrcreative.org/2021/07/11/reparations/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | July 12, 2021, 5:42 PMhere is another haiku
punishing heat in
Death Valley – no water. all
living things suffer
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Posted by Catherine Penafiel | July 12, 2021, 8:17 PMVery good. Death Valley is a great choice of setting.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | July 12, 2021, 8:26 PMIt’s so hot
How hot is it
It is so hot you could fry an egg on the sidewalk
Looks at the sidewalk
Thinks of the suggestion
Looks at the skillet
I want my eggs sunny side up
Buttered edges and edible
Maybe we can enjoy eating
on the patio
Away from the fireball in the sky
If I could look straight at it
I would say there are flames
fine, wavy flames
they look like hairs
waving at us all
as we sit on the patio
we eat our eggs
not knowing
if this meal is closer to our last
because sunny is losing his hair
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | July 17, 2021, 1:50 PMHot stuff! Love the flames as hair simile.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | July 17, 2021, 2:23 PM