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The Poet :By American Poet Robert M. Hensel

All About Robert
 
  

Robert was born with a birth defect known as spina bifida. A disability that has 
not stopped him from achieving success in his life. Robert serves as an 
Advocate for the disabled, an on going effort to to better the rights of all 
Americans with disabilities. He is an International poet-writer  with well over 900 
publications Published worldwide. In 2000, Robert was nominated as one of the 
best poets of the 20th Cen.  Just most Resently, he was nominated for the 
pushcart prize, an award giving to Outstanding Poets & Writers. Robert is also a 
Guinness & Ripley's World Record Holder for the longest non stop wheelie in a 
wheelchair, covering a total distance of 6.178 miles. The reason for his record, 
was to help raise money for wheelchair ramps throughout the community. 
 


"The Poet"


Words flow onto paper like rain , forming giant rivers
of unseen lands.
The very force guides us along a journey
that holds of great adventure.
We are the explorers of the literary world.
We must find the courage to write what
others are unable to, with the greatest 
of passion.
A poet dreams. and then must portray his
visions upon the page that lies before him.
It is the beauty of all things that inspires us
to communicate in such a way.
A man does not wake up one day, and 
decide to become a poet.
It must live in the very blood that courses
through his veins.
He is the creator of a world, only he has
known.
He is the actor and director, of all that 
speaks out through his pen.
He is a man of all men, Visionary of all
visionaries.
What you haven't seen, he has.
What you can't say, he can.
For he is the poet.

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