Festschrift

No collection of
Writings await
The autodidact
Amateur poet,
Only the hope
His poems may
Be read and not
Rejected by the
Average person.
No English major
Will encourage
An amateur poet
To encroach on
Where professional
Literati fear to go.
If my poems please
You then share them,
Poetry is far from my
Professional spheres
Though never far
From my heart.