Flesh out a poem inspired by the image above then post it 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.
Living Poetry 
I love you, dear I
love you too, bone of my bone
as they snuggled by
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Posted by Chris Clarke | October 7, 2024, 8:17 AMLovely!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 7, 2024, 6:57 PM💀https://melissalemay.wordpress.com/2024/10/07/sifting/
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Posted by Melissa Lemay | October 7, 2024, 10:52 AMNicely done. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted by crazy4yarn2 | October 7, 2024, 12:39 PMLove the line “fished for truth instead of love”. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | October 7, 2024, 7:05 PMThank you so much!
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Posted by crazy4yarn2 | October 7, 2024, 7:28 PM