Tonight, those of us in North Carolina, USA, are likely to get our first frost of the season and it won’t be just a frost but a hard freeze. So let’s welcome the cold this week by writing a frost poem. Winter’s coming but you still have time to post your poem 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.
Frost
I do not belong in the snow
or near anywhere about it
Its blinding white glare
does not touch my dark eyes
Its grainy softness doesn’t
get to meet my fingertips or palm
yet I feel, somehow, a confused chill
from thousands of miles away
when guns fire on persons unknown,
unknowing of their own fate
So, the sub zero, biting frost almost
seem warm hugs from gods above
in the cold scorch of everyday violence
and the perennial ice of human heart…
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Posted by utopicdystopian | November 10, 2025, 10:21 AMExcellent transition from a lovely description of snow to the harsh reality of war. Well done and thanks for sharing!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 10, 2025, 8:45 PMThank you so much
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Posted by utopicdystopian | November 10, 2025, 9:22 PMGreat image – happy Monday ❄️https://poetisatinta.wordpress.com/2025/11/10/frost-tipped-needles/
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Posted by poetisatinta | November 10, 2025, 12:36 PMGreat haiku, Ange! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 10, 2025, 9:20 PMThanks ❤️
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Posted by poetisatinta | November 11, 2025, 7:06 AMhttps://bartbarkerpoet.com/2025/11/11/first-frost/https://bartbarkerpoet.com/2025/11/11/first-frost/
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | November 11, 2025, 9:30 PM