Toward Higher Ground: a Collection of Verse

Often people avoid poetry because they believe it must be difficult to be any good, or worse, that they are not equipped, in whatever fashion, to decode and understand it. Rubbish. Read these poems easily. Dont worry about what they are supposed to mean. Have faith in your unique impressions of themyour individual interpretation, where the sum is greater than the words, where, every once in a while, you transcend this finite language and, if only for a moment, say Ah!David Alan HallFrom His Introduction