This week let’s write a meteor poem. The Perseid meteor shower is peaking about now so if you’re up past midnight and can find some dark cloudless sky, have a look and you’ll likely see one streak by. Of course, meteors are excellent metaphors for anything brief and brilliant though I’ve never liked the phrase “meteoric rise” since meteors only fall.
Post your meteor poem in the comments below and if it lands, it’ll be a meteorite poem.
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 
Pumpkin Soup Again
Head’s falling like an unpinned grenade
Soon ready to explode
Burying shrapnel pieces in corners of shade
Scattered like broken retina globes
Razor blades shredding memory lockets
Slivered icicles inside blurry sockets
Needles of pain
Sheets of sleet before the rain
Bloodied eyeball tracks like meteor trails
And the pain numbing capsules do fail
Oh please, blindly needing to set sail
Upon swirling Oceans, like Homer’s tales
Ivor Steven (c) 2018
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Posted by ivor20 | August 12, 2024, 7:20 AMDisgusting but well written. Thanks for sharing this old poem.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 12, 2024, 7:13 PMYou’re welcome, Bart … and disgusting it was, it was the prelude before my next 2 strokes!!
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Posted by ivor20 | August 12, 2024, 8:13 PMAck!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 12, 2024, 8:51 PMhttps://nolchafox2.wixsite.com/nolcha-s-written-wor/post/cloud-surveyor
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Posted by crazy4yarn2 | August 12, 2024, 5:57 PMLovely. I’m always intrigued by poetic descriptions of hope. Thanks for sharing.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 12, 2024, 7:17 PMThank you! I’m glad the poem worked for you, and that you didn’t think hope is overdone.
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Posted by crazy4yarn2 | August 12, 2024, 8:26 PMHere’s what I came up with:
https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2024/08/13/why-i-dare-not-ask-you-out/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 13, 2024, 10:45 PMI’m fortunate to have discovered your Poetry Blog as it is sometimes challenging to slow down with the hustle and bustle of life to find inspiration. Here’s what I came up with:
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Posted by Charles Gregory M | August 17, 2024, 8:16 AMWelcome, Charles! I try to provide weekly inspiration. Nice piece. You finish well with the final paragraph that begins “When it’s my turn to depart…” Thanks for sharing!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | August 17, 2024, 10:49 AM