This week let’s write a treaty poem. While treaties are agreements between nations, they could be metaphors for all sorts of interactions between people, plants, even landscapes. Ratify your poem then post it 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 
Darn Dog
She runs through rooms with muddy paws.She pees on area rugs.She barfs her food upon my boots,and eats the kitty poop.I give up, I wave white flags,she’s too hard to keep up with.The only way to calm her downis give her lots of treatsies.
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Posted by nolchafox | November 27, 2023, 11:18 AMNice pun.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 27, 2023, 6:56 PMi stood therebright eyes, down castthe smell of burning woodcreosote, Opium and defeatstill in my nostrils
around my neck, an albatross:wampum (in twenties) andan old brown scapula (Mary doing her job)a hollow gold chain, light and airynewly-bleached hair not enoughto stay the tideof time and last callbelay all negotiationno parlay, no engagement, no treaty
i walk awaythe sound of surfthe muffled basslinethe only consolationtonight
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Posted by Chris Clarke | November 27, 2023, 5:00 PMIt looks like the editing function is off…
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Posted by Chris Clarke | November 27, 2023, 5:02 PMHow interesting. I can’t find a setting that controls editing. Sorry about that.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 27, 2023, 7:01 PMLovely and heartbreaking!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 27, 2023, 7:02 PM