Poetry Category
All lives should matter equally
Posted on July 2, 2020 Leave a Comment
There is no need to look further than our own back yard To see the damaging impacts of entrenched racism The deprivation of opportunity When skin colour overrides merit When skin colour consigns someone to the outer When skin colour is the reason For refusing to engage For refusing to respect For refusing to embrace […]
The Best Me
Posted on June 21, 2020 Leave a Comment
Something I wrote three years ago. Nothing’s changed. Still valid today.
Footscray
Posted on June 6, 2020 Leave a Comment
I lived in Greater Footscray for twenty-nine years. Two things l loved about Footscray: the multicultural ambience expressed in the poem and the glorious park captured in a few photos.
Gerry Roberts 