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June Visual Poetry Prompt

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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.

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29 thoughts on “June Visual Poetry Prompt”

  1. Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld's avatar

    spring into summer’s call
    let the rays pull the drifter into
    toes crusted with sand and salt
    woosh to waves to tickle, to chill
    one welcome to frigid
    to release the heat
    twisted in the minds of goers
    flushed away in the minds of seekers
    fresh, open for new memories
    maybe old memories
    come to play
    come to rest
    come to go

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    Posted by Lisa Tomey-Zonneveld | June 5, 2023, 7:59 AM
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  2. Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris's avatar

    In response to Bartholomew Barker’s June Visual Poetry Prompt

    Sentinel’s

    Sentinel’s standing tall
    guarding the paradisiacal island
    year after year into decades
    through light storms and squalls

    Nothing touched them at all
    their roots burrowed deep
    fronds spread wide against
    sun wind and balmy stalls

    Late on the last day of Fall
    onto the beach they came
    carrying machines made by men
    not one could withstand the thrall

    Chopping down the lovely molle
    used their wood for fancy chairs
    on the beach where they had stood
    victims of human cabal

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    Posted by Gypsie-Ami Offenbacher-Ferris | June 5, 2023, 8:20 AM
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  3. nolchafox's avatar

    Vacation

    My brain imagines
    seas so blue, so transparent,
    she can see the sharks.
    My brain imagines
    white beaches, warmed by the sun.
    She can see the sand-prints
    through the house.
    My brain imagines
    a vacation of rest and sunburn.
    Nah, that’s not going to happen.
    She might die
    from some exotic disease.

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    Posted by nolchafox | June 5, 2023, 9:03 AM
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  4. DanielleM's avatar

    I was there in May
    A Mother’s Day retreat
    A weekend get a way
    Lazing away in a tropical paradise
    Intoxicated by nature, the roll of blues, fairytale skies and shifting sand beneath

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    Posted by DanielleM | June 5, 2023, 10:18 AM
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  5. utopicdystopian's avatar

    Peaceable Solutions

    The living die to reach paradise
    It is a strange conundrum
    in a philosopher’s mind’s eye
    What reigned once as a haven true
    now soiled and sold for a bucks few
    It belongs to no one and traded yet
    between littering and the filthy lots
    the bitter escapists who deny life
    peddle their petty plastic fortune
    to enter the light of this heaven
    to dirty, to debauch and to destroy

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    Posted by utopicdystopian | June 5, 2023, 10:50 AM
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  6. Susi Bocks's avatar

    6 word story – The beach is my happy place! 🙂 And that beach is what I would consider paradise on earth!

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    Posted by Susi Bocks | June 28, 2023, 4:33 PM
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