Samhain, a poem written by Bartholomew Barker at Spillwords.com
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Samhain

Samhain

written by: Bartholomew Barker

@bartbarkerpoet

 

Send the kids to trick or treat
With your parents tonight
Let’s be alone when the walls
Between the worlds grow thin

Before it was an excuse to wear sexy costumes
Before it was an excuse for kids to beg candy
Before it was co-opted by the Christians

Back when it was a celebration of the harvest
Back when it was about remembering the dead
Back when it was about surviving the winter

Let’s turn off all our devices
We’ll set a fire and celebrate
Like good old fashioned Pagans
Naked beneath the moon

Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker

Bartholomew Barker is one of the organizers of Living Poetry, a collection of poets and poetry readers in the Triangle region of North Carolina. 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. Born and raised in Ohio, studied in Chicago, he worked in Connecticut for nearly twenty years before moving to Hillsborough where he makes money as a computer programmer to fund his poetry habit.
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