This week let’s write a poem with the words political, sharp and wonder 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, where he has hosted monthly workshops 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 the Pushcart Prize in 2021, 2024 & 2025 as well as the Best of the Net Anthology in 2024. His work has appeared in The Lake, Autumn Sky Poetry Daily, Panoply, Tipton Poetry Journal, the Gyroscope Review and the Naugatuck River Review among others.
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Posted by A. Haze🌹 | May 21, 2024, 11:59 AMLove the goosebumps! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 21, 2024, 7:00 PMit’s no wonder that
sharp tweets cause a lot of deaths
political farce
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Posted by Chris Clarke | May 21, 2024, 3:49 PMNice haiku and use of the prompt!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 21, 2024, 7:01 PMhttps://bartbarkerpoet.com/2024/05/21/poetectomy/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 21, 2024, 11:10 PMReally liked that one, Bart.
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Posted by Chris Clarke | May 23, 2024, 3:23 PMThank you, Chris.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | May 23, 2024, 6:52 PM