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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A Haiku Poem :
All the transitions
We live seasons like flowers
Each will come and go
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Posted by brightstardancing | March 2, 2026, 10:03 AMLovely! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 2, 2026, 7:18 PMYou’re welcome! 🤗
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Posted by brightstardancing | March 3, 2026, 9:19 AMHere’s my entry:
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Posted by Maggie | March 2, 2026, 2:14 PMBrilliant! I especially liked “Loss layered in lichen and moss.”
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 2, 2026, 7:22 PMMarch and its flowers are a welcomed sight 😃 https://poetisatinta.wordpress.com/2026/03/03/visual-poetry-prompt-march/
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Posted by poetisatinta | March 3, 2026, 5:02 AMLoved the fist of green blades and the narrow light of March. Well done!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 3, 2026, 8:36 PMSo glad you enjoyed it 😃
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Posted by poetisatinta | March 4, 2026, 4:13 AMSpringtime Soft
Tombstones turn soft in spring,
skirted by flowers and light breeze
wistful greys draped in wispy green
Scattered around the burials
like merry-weather friends that laugh
in the face of life’s greatest spectacle
Sitting together, watching sunsets
for a while, even if just for a while
Tombstones in flowery meadows
somehow turn softer in spring…
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Posted by utopicdystopian | March 4, 2026, 10:14 AMLove those first three lines. Great work! Thanks for sharing.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 4, 2026, 6:37 PMThank you for the lovely prompts🙏🏼!
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Posted by utopicdystopian | March 5, 2026, 12:43 AM