This week let’s write a love poem for St. Valentine’s Day. I’m sure you poets already have at least one, if not dozens of love poems in some folder, so I must insist on new ink for this prompt. Exercise those poetry muscles and post the burn 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 
What is that animal in the picture? A dog…a rabbit..? Is it just me?
Fine….
They say Love is blind
It must be true
Cause you’re not attractive
but I love you.
ha ha…. go away
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Posted by JeanMarie | February 14, 2022, 2:53 PM🤭😅
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | February 14, 2022, 4:24 PMHa! Excellent little rhyme!
I have no idea what species animal is in the pic. That’s why I chose it.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 14, 2022, 5:02 PMNonett for Valentine’s Day 2022
I tried to write a beautiful sonnet
A verse in elegant tone and meter
Sitting eating a buttered farm crumpet
Watching bluebirds enjoying our feeder
It was then that I realized I don’t have the skill
I am far too undisciplined to follow the rule
and wonder if more than my body is over the hill
if the mind I have left is just really a fool’s
But I know only one thing with this dimming of light
my love for you is untainted by the passage of days
Your body calls to me night after night
and your beautiful visage, I’ll follow your way
Your complete person is what I adore
Mind, body and spirit I love more ‘n more
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Posted by Chris Clarke | February 14, 2022, 3:05 PMA lovely Valentine’s Day Sonnet. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 14, 2022, 5:05 PMhttp://flickerofthoughts.com/2022/02/15/valentines-evening/
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | February 14, 2022, 4:24 PMLove the “unusual” images! Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 14, 2022, 5:08 PM😊
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Posted by Cassa Bassa | February 14, 2022, 5:13 PMFunny image with the bb gun
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Posted by Second Act Blogger | February 14, 2023, 8:16 PMLikeLiked by 2 people
Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 14, 2022, 7:14 PMEve’s Song to Adam
I run to you
in my mind
when we are apart
my thoughts sit by your side
when you arrive my longing
holds back, savoring
the heart’s revelry.
I am symbiotic with your desire.
Fall!
I am falling into adoration.
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Posted by ts19page | February 14, 2022, 7:53 PMLove that last line. Great work!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 14, 2022, 8:28 PMPrompt forced me to write my first love poem:
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Posted by Second Act Blogger | February 18, 2022, 1:25 PMBeautiful!
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Posted by JeanMarie | February 18, 2022, 1:28 PMI’m glad my prompt “forced” that lovely poem out of you. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 18, 2022, 5:06 PMAs brevity is the soul of wit, succinctness is the hallelujah of poetry…
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Posted by ts19page | February 18, 2022, 2:10 PMI chose to choose you always
Many years ago
The best Choice that I have made
Is daily choose you
Remember our wedding day
When we said our vows
It’s the daily choice we make
That makes our love abound
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Posted by joshuacushman89 | February 14, 2023, 6:38 PMVery sweet though this one doesn’t qualify for the prompt because of the L-word in the last line. Thanks for sharing anyway!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | February 14, 2023, 6:52 PM