Author Richard Rensberry

When a poet writes, the world listens. In fact, the Universe has eyes, ears and a heart filled with poetry.

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Repute

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Too many poems 

wear esoteric shoes.  

They conspire

with the literary elite

and tout  

distinguished pedigrees

like Harvard or Berkeley.

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Poems that run barefoot

immersed in life,

emerge hand written

from farmers, nurses

and proprietors of truth.  

They can illuminate places 

the intellect seldom goes.

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The heart is simple

and mostly straightforward. 

Like the Shoshone the say:

some people are smart but not wise;

and the Sasquatch teach:

ignorance and stupidity cannot see themselves.

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