This week let’s write a poem with the words condition, five and rapid 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.
(I plugged “Condition, Five, Rapid” into the WordPress AI Image Generator to get the pic above. Not bad. Probably not worth the electricity nor the water consumed but still not bad.)
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 
Go Speed Racer: 2026!
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Posted by Chris Clarke | March 16, 2026, 10:25 AMI can still hear the theme music.
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 16, 2026, 7:56 PMThanks for the inspiration Bart your visual immediately made me think of Superhero’s 😃 https://poetisatinta.wordpress.com/2026/03/16/the-fantastic-four/
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Posted by poetisatinta | March 16, 2026, 6:23 PMAnd a pair of limericks as well. Thanks for sharing, Ange!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 16, 2026, 8:07 PMThank 😃
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Posted by poetisatinta | March 16, 2026, 8:10 PMThank you for the prompt!
https://alittlebitofeverythingwithlove.com/2026/03/16/lets-hike-or-not/
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Posted by lisaapaul | March 17, 2026, 12:24 PMLove it, especially the last line. Thanks for sharing!
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Posted by Bartholomew Barker | March 17, 2026, 6:56 PMThank you!
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Posted by lisaapaul | March 18, 2026, 11:33 AM