<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577562" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>The Old Rhyming Poet</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">In his early eighties his best days long gone<br>But the gray haired old poet he keeps penning on<br>Though many see him as of another time<br>Sixty years as a poet and still writing in rhyme.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Though not seen as a mentor to the young poets of the town<br>He once was the Regional Poet Laureate and he knew of renown<br>When rhyme it was popular a long time ago<br>And his hair was as dark as the wing of a crow.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Not hard to tell he's known a far better day<br>The old rhyming poet that the years have left gray<br>It has been more than five decades since he was in his prime<br>Eventually we all become victims of time.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">In time as in life few things do seem to last<br>And verses that rhyme are now seen as of the past<br>But to him to stop writing would be living a lie<br>And he will be a poet till the day that he die.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=Francis+Duggan">Francis Duggan</a><div class=q> <img src="https://www.citatepedia.ro/g/32share.png" style="float:left" alt="Share"> <script type="text/javascript" src="//s7.addthis.com/js/300/addthis_widget.js#pubid=citatepedia" async="async"></script><div style="display:inline-block" class="addthis_sharing_toolbox" data-url="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=577562" data-title="The Old Rhyming Poet de Francis Duggan" data-description="In his early eighties his best days long gone But the gray haired old poet he keeps penning on Though many see him as of another time Sixty years as a poet and still writing in rhyme. Though not seen as a mentor to the young poets of the town He ..."></div> </div> </div>

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