Best Unfertile Poems

promises blooming like flowers in unfertile soil ~are seeds that can't take root...

Read more of this work...

The First Fleet
by Robert (Bob) Moore

The 26th of January, is called Australia Day
that was when some 10 pound poms, decided they would stay
they had been,...

Read more of this work...

magnifica
      noblis
       so insigne&variegated
a mosaic 
        ...

Read more of this work...

I question my own interplay of psychology and political science.
Does this too facilely root analogy within ecology of climate health v pathology?

Intersections of sociology and...

Read more of this work...

The Arsenic Sunset

Eden now knows what it meant
When corruption took flesh as a 
Serpent—
For all things alien
Narrow to a tendril
A twist of black sap
A rune...

Read more of this work...

NORTH OF NOD

I ran into Eve last night and she’s just doing fine.
She lives north of Nod now out by the Cain county line.
She said...

Read more of this work...

I was created in your image.  Manifested  in pleasure and delivered in unfertile 
ground. Plummeted to a world of half truths, constitutional tyranny...

Read more of this work...

I sit at christmas and want to feel as others
To have the chance if only
Seeing children with their loved ones
It makes my stomach turn as...

Read more of this work...

Depression weighs heavy upon the posture of hope
Scarring demeanor carving arthritic oak
Agonised limbs decorate skies without bird
Emptiness the whisper that sings without word


Unfertile the thoughts...

Read more of this work...

Sittin’ in th’ saddle. Gotta soon skedaddle.
School marm says she’ll tattle. Sheriff wants a battle.
Kissed her on the cheek jes’ to git a li’l peek...

Read more of this work...

WHO SPEAK TO ME AS FREIND BEHIND THE BUSHES
THAT NEITHER RATTLES OR SHAKES
WHEN HE SPEAKS.
"ALL THE SRUBS OF THE GARDEN WISHES
THE HENS TO LAY EGGS...

Read more of this work...

This tugging and pulling
must cease
I can’t meet the needs
of all beasts
nor chase after dreams
amid all of these screams
so please let me be
as I’m tethered
and bound
to...

Read more of this work...

Global warning
 The boy was climbing up a tree, his mother, from the kitchen window,
shouted, if you fall down and break a leg don´t come...

Read more of this work...

Why the deep, dark valleys in my life,
Why the high peaks of heavenly rife,
Why the unfertile and fruitless leas,
Answer me, O Silence, answer me?

Must I...

Read more of this work...

Lessons Learned from the Tennessee Valley

Spoiled have we become!?
When you look back from whence, we have begun,
the provision of profit to our young,
that sheltered them...

Read more of this work...