I Hope To Poem by Francis Duggan

With rhyme words i am one who just loves to play
And i add to my numbers of rhymes every day
The rhymes keep coming to me in notebook i jot them down
But never for money or for literary renown
For many years i have been a rhyming buff
And i am one who has written pages of stuff
I loved reading rhymes when i was a young boy
And writing them nowadays i thoroughly enjoy
It was my love of rhyme made a rhymer of me
And i wrote my first rhymes in nineteen seventy three
But going back the years this now seems long ago
And since time that rusts iron has become my foe
But if i said i would quit rhyming this would be a lie
As i hope to be doing it on the day i do die.