I Am Just An Aging Rhymer Poem by Francis Duggan

Some tell me i am one who has wasted so much precious time
On writing on Nature and people and places in old fashioned rhyme
Though to their advice though well intended i pay little heed
For to keep on penning in me there's the need

For many years now i have been a rhyming buff
And true i have written a whole heap of stuff
But what i enjoy doing why should i give away
I hope to keep penning till my life's last day

My worth as a rhymer i always do doubt
But there's always so much for one to write about
I no longer aspire to for to be a poet
Nor am i one worthy of literary note

My best days in life to the forever gone
But i do love rhyming so i will keep rhyming on
I'm just an aging rhymer that and nothing more
And that is something you may have heard me say before.