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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=460279" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Professional Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">and of course it was wrong<br>to label him as that – in just that tone of voice; <br>a touch of envy there, no doubt</div><div style="margin:10px 0">implying a comfortable life, <br>a smart careerist, older poets youthfully<br>cultivated, poems in the right magazines, <br>editors gently kept in touch with; <br>keeping on the right side of his peers, <br>'interesting' reviews of their poetry skilfully woven, <br>professional favours quietly exchanged; <br>academic posts gracefully filled, and<br>moved on from; leaving grateful ex-students<br>recommended for the vacancy; <br>and an acquired ability<br>to write just enough, but not less; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">so it should be rather, a lifelong devotee of poetry, <br>and when he started to read to us I felt mean<br>for assuming him to be some artificial thing<br>a professional poet; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">I wanted to inhabit his poetry, the<br>house of his poetry; but some doors<br>to rooms were open, some were shut; <br>would I give the time to find and love the key? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">He read his own poems<br>as if they were step-children –<br>proud to show them off, and yet, not really his; <br>the audience, taken aback by this, <br>hesitated to applaud.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But when he read the poems of others, <br>he read them as though they were miracles<br>to stun and to admire, yet he was, we were, barely worthy of; <br>dropping as fine mercy, as the gentle dew of heaven; he read like<br>an amateur would read the great, in awe; as -<br>a lifelong devotee of poetry. He shone.<br>In each of us, a poet was born and lived.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Michael+Shepherd">Michael Shepherd</a><div class=q>
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