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. Don’t worry about what they are “supposed” to mean. Have faith in your unique impressions of them—your 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 Hall From His Introduction