This week let’s write a poem with the words fill, fish and pumpkin in it. This is another of those prompts where I (mostly) 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.
Wishes
If wishes were fishes
I’d hollow those pumpkins
and fill them with
gold instead of
candles.
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Posted by nolchafox | October 16, 2023, 1:01 PMThey’d be more valuable though less spooky. Nice little poem!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 16, 2023, 7:36 PMThanks so much!
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Posted by nolchafox | October 17, 2023, 7:55 AM