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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