This week let’s write a poem with the words dark, frost and long in it. This is another of those prompts where I “randomly” choose three words from a list of the top 1000 words in the English language plus a few of my favorites. Post your poems 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 
It was cold and dark
I knew it would be frosty
How I long for spring
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Posted by Lisa Tomey | December 20, 2021, 7:43 AMA winter haiku. Excellent!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 7:15 PMResponse to Bartholomew Barker’s Monday three word prompt Dark, Frost, Long
Cycle of Life
Cold dark nights
Eternity covered in biting frost
Trees long on earth sag
beneath the weight
Frigid wind cuts through limbs
aged and brittle
New growth has ceased
decay creeps ever upward
Barren branches creak
the ground shakes
A massive limb breaks free
thundering to the ground
The forest rejoices
a limb to feed the soil
The trees weep
another ancient is dying
Roots dry and shatter
beneath the frozen ground
making room for seedlings
The cycle of life continues
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Posted by Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris | December 20, 2021, 11:38 AMLove the second line and the general anthropomorphism of trees. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 7:19 PMThank you so much Bartholomew! 😊
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Posted by Ami (Gypsie) Offenbacher-Ferris | December 20, 2021, 7:27 PMThe Weiner was longer
than the bun, dark, frostbitten
No hotdog for me
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Posted by JeanMarie | December 20, 2021, 1:21 PMHa! An American Haiku, doubly so because it features hotdogs. Love it!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 7:20 PMHmmm a dark forest casts long shadows…
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | December 20, 2021, 3:12 PMExcellent one-liner!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 7:22 PMHaha I may actually write a longer one
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | December 22, 2021, 4:35 AMdespite ice and frost
my yuletide camellia
burns rubyred
through the long dark winter
stoking its own fire
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Posted by redfoxpoet | December 20, 2021, 4:22 PMThis is meant to be a tanka, with the lines centered. I typed it in that way, but WordPerfect lined it up.
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Posted by redfoxpoet | December 20, 2021, 4:24 PMYeah, WordPress comments don’t allow for much formatting. I encourage you to post this to your blog where you can do more of that kind of thing and the post the link here.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 7:24 PMGorgeous! Love that last line.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 7:23 PMThanks so much!
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Posted by redfoxpoet | December 20, 2021, 8:27 PMYou know, I *never* look at these posting before I write something…
It seems that I was not the only one to get a haiku vibe this week!
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Her dark silky hair
Frost from the moonlight’s dance shone
Throughout this long night
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Posted by Chris Clarke | December 20, 2021, 10:11 PMSensual. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 20, 2021, 10:41 PMBeach
Dark solstice night
Punctuated by a full moon
Frosty water makes me long for warmer days
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Posted by Second Act Blogger | December 22, 2021, 1:44 PMWelcome to Winter! Well done.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | December 22, 2021, 5:26 PMshielded by the dark
the frost turns to hard, clear ice
longing for some warmth
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Posted by Susi Bocks | January 7, 2022, 11:30 PMExcellent haiku. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | January 7, 2022, 11:33 PMThanks, Bart! 🙂
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Posted by Susi Bocks | January 7, 2022, 11:41 PMLovely poem, Susi!
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Posted by redfoxpoet | January 8, 2022, 9:20 AMThanks so much! 🙂
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Posted by Susi Bocks | January 8, 2022, 2:39 PM