4drmike44
11-12-2015, 03:11 PM
I am a 71 year-old semi-retired physician. Over the past 10 years I have been memorizing and sharing poems with an uncle in the spirit of "oratory" that we both had in school in the West Indies. I belong to a local group of elderly poets, who are all interesting characters. I am not a poet but I have written 1 poem, apart from some doggerel to my wife. I have been interested in trying to distill the essence of my favorite poems after reading a humorous reduction of "Ode on a Grecian Urn". Today was my first attempt at haiku to "Ozymandias" that I am refining for my poetry meeting this weekend.