Best Arable Poems

The weary ploughman shuffles
along the deserted bridle path,
his day-long work completed,
furrows wound around his piece of land,
just arable enough to provide his daily bread.

His dreary shack is cold and bare,
just a few essentials.  Oh, once it thrived,
but that, alas, was quite a long past.
Slow...

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So many times you’ve shuffled the deck,
I don’t know which card will turn up next
So many times you’ve poisoned the well,
I don’t what lies you’re going to tell

It’s not fair --
Your keepin’ us all in the dark
It’s not fair --
The snuffing out of every spark

So...

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The Quakers, being religiously persecuted, set sail from expatriated England;
they were the first settlers to reach the shore of New England: a free land!
Later the Puritans came and settled in other eastern, bustling colonies
seeking the same religious freedom, but their urge was stronger than dreams.


Many...

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"Green House of the Sick Man" 
Imagining the lush, trickled and tickled
By spray of light thoughts, my healing possibly
To be that clover in full bloom again 
My body looked more like onion weed

I wished for the irrigation from the botanist
These thoughts, they want to crop...

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Scramble in life of a 
man. 
Is sequel to gamble 
and grumble 
Thinking that he is 
humble 
Because he could 
afford an apple. 
Men begin to play 
him like scrabble. 
As a sample for the 
simple. 
On-till he finds the 
temple.
Commit your life to 
him...

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Green lush of green 
lush green is green
a leaf of language 
a branch of word 
a flagstone steps 

Heart of the earth is free, 
white flowers
Clean heart, 
fine arts literature
sketching art 
arable land 
planting gratitude

Green is nature 
cool breeze 
citing cloud 
loyal heart 
clarity of...

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Flourish,  
Flourishing as the sun shining you daily 
Rejoicing  as  abundant rain watering your fields 
and creating some dams 
for farming fish and feeding your animals. 
You are burgeoning in the eyes
 of some lazy folks
 who have big mouths 
to talk senseless speeches in...

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Think about this
That this globe may soon provide
For eight billion people
And yet has struggled like a tide
To find some shore arable
Enough to unsalt a trees root.
Over all the years
When we were but millions, truth
Was we lived on edge of fears
That we would starve to death
Unless...

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Orchards of Opportunity 

Alone in the orchard of opportunities
surveying the ripened potential
I pondered the fruitful labor of others
enviously sniffing the succulence of success.

Knowing that their success was only mine
in theory, in dreams, in unlimited potential.
Before me lay the future’s untilled fields
awaiting a touch, a vision,...

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Africa the Holy garden 
protected by Angels

Africa the Holy garden 
blessed by God,

Africa of pure waters
And more natural resources, 

Africa of more plants 
and arable soil,

Africa of good weather, 
fauna  and flora 

Africa which welcomes 
all the visitors 

"Know yourselves Africans, 
Knowing  yourselves Africans"

The God...

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The dark cloud lifted to find ourselves on the global stage
In spite of the stage fright, we united into a fist of courage
The arable land awaits, but instead erodes from our uncertain steps
The endless boycott and protestations, but the rain never drops

We choreograph a new...

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It is times like these
When I cannot force 
A poem out of me
But the emotions leave 
My blood boiling 
Like that split second
Before sugar turns into caramel
And my cheeks inevitably
Turn red.
I cannot explain this 
Bursting universe
Inside of me-
It leaves my head in the 
Stars
As my...

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Still tears in our eyes for our Brave Haiti
Still tears in our eyes for our incredible Country
Still tears in our eyes for our mortified, martyred
Bludgeoned, tricked, tortured, vilified and murdered victims
The cowards wasted and riddled with bullets an incompetent president
Who could not exterminate corruption and...

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INFERNO

As I watched from far away,
Under the sun sending down  its rays,
Not willing to stare any longer,
And about to find my way out,
I noticed the earth trembling,
Followed by a cacophony,
Temperature rose in a flash,
Behold it was a volcano,
Red molten flowing down from its cone,
Arable...

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three flowers ...
          of extraordinary bloom
     seeds and earth, spun together in chaos

          soil of arable value, some more or less ... firm,
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