Randy Baker

Joined January 2024

177 stories

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Poet, author, essayist.

My Vocal "Top Stories":

* The Breakers Motel * 7 * Holding On * Til Death Do Us Part * The Fisherman

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Prompted: #2
PROMPTED: INTRODUCTION The February Prompted Challenge was such a success that there was little question that I should follow it up, just as I had hoped to do. For the March Challenge, we'll be switching from poetry to prose.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Writers
The Middle Watch
In the midnight of my soul, in yet another darkest hour, head in my hands, heart straining against the cold, I strike hope against
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Winner's Circle: Prompted #1
INTRODUCTION The inaugural Randy Baker Writer's Challenge was a bigger success than I had anticipated. The final tally stood at 37 entries! A huge thank you goes out to everyone who took part in the challenge and to those who showed support by spreading the word.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Writers
Polymorphism
We no longer See our reflection In the eyes Of our brothers and sisters. * We no longer Remember the days
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Modern Warfare
Modern Warfare Angels of death criss-cross the night, mere blips on a screen. We huddle around our consoles watching, sipping our coffee.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
His Indulgence You Sang
Certainly, elsewhere, six-hearted husband, securing occasion, remember daughter replying held that, his own, strangers to propriety.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Summer, My Love
Dear Summer, Come to me. I am waiting for your warm embrace, to feel you touch my skin like so many times before,
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Wash Day
The clothes flapping on the clothesline looked as if they might break free of their pegs and take flights across the valley. The bamboo pole that held the line aloft swayed violently and precariously.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Morning
Morning Brings sunbeams squeezing through closed blinds stabbing into my eyelids like little light darts aimed with precision
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Ring Games
Under the tamarind tree he sits, watching the nearby children at play * He feels the earth beneath him spinning on its axis, so quickly
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Locked Out
You left me like a shotgun blast. The smoke cleared and our time had passed. I didn’t see that curve ball coming, until it hit me dead in the eyes.
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets
Storm Watch
Hurricane offshore Island people hold their breath Death rides on the wind --- Breeze becomes fury Scattering fruits of chaos
By Randy Baker2 years ago in Poets