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There are many more poets than is generally supposed, and probably there are everyone tries at least once, probably mostly in early youth, even in poetry.
After that, there are always the most diverse occasions that encourage you to come up with your own poem.
On the occasion of her parents' 50th wedding anniversary Nancy Gibson wrote the following poem.
Time hammers us with quiet perseverance
Through decades, the most distressing are the signs!
No matter what our standing or appearance
Time rends from us his aches, and sculpts his lines.Upon our spirits, though, Times's art does vary
Depending on the character he finds
Humor pensive, fearful, kind or merry
He deepens, strengthens, skilfully combines.With tempers raised on Honor and Compassion
The years can only bless these lucky ones
Unfolding tolerance and strength in equal fashion
Which shine out farther, brighter than a thousand suns.So smile on, time, upon these two so dear
Nancy Gibson
That may make their fair experience shine long,
shine far from their cheer.
When Nancy asked me for my opinion, I could only congratulate her and was then pleased that her parents, the actual addressees, also liked it very much.
"Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable for their apparent disinclination to do so."
Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
