Can Poetry Matter Poem by Robert Ronnow

In the debate between accessible and difficult poems
Poets' poems and poems for people
Only the single poem and private reader matter

Both kinds and anything between can matter or not
Solid or made of air, a vase or heavy clay ashtray
One word repeated or many like a lei

An acquired taste, like wine, and like wine
Not sustenance, yet men die with their miseries
Uncut without it, news and mere matter

I advise everyone to keep a personal anthology of
      poems that matter
Or not. Perhaps it should be novels. Stones, insect
      wings,
Feathers, Birds you've seen, People loved.