Robert Rippy started writing in the early 1970's when he became friends with the poet DeWayne Rail. Through his encouragement and guidance, Robert enrolled in an MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of California-Irvine and received his degree in 1977.
For the next five years, he wrote poems which were published in small magazines. When his position at the college where he was teaching changed into a combination of administration and teaching, he pretty much stopped writing.
Thirty years later in 2016, he moved with his wife from Southern California to Sunriver in St. George and became involved in their Creative Writing group. Later, he joined Dixie Poets in St. George and is now an award winning poet. He has just published a collection of poems that is entitled Eroding into Something Else that features thirty-nine poems: fifteen from his early period and twenty-four from the last five years.
His poems cover a full range of topics from historical themes to observations of nature's beauty, family life and beyond. His skill and techniques are amazing.
Browse, No Services
Sign along the highway says Browse
highway that climbs through
this red part of Utah.
I pull off, note
there's not much
to be seen here,
just a dirt road losing its way
through the junipers.
I judge the car wouldn't make it,
that it's too damned hot
and move on.
and grow old with the mountains.
