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All But the Few

More than facility with language
or felicity of tongue,

More than avowal of taste
or personal sovereignty,

More than projection of vision
or screening of view –

Poetry is what matters to all but the few
who lose the forest in the trees
and flee the flowers for the bees.

Dave Read

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