Living A Poetical Dream Comments

This is a summation poem: it's not like other poems which state their theme, comment on a specific subject, create a scene through imagery. For this poem you are standing AT THE STILL POINT OF THE TURNING WORLD (T. S. Eliot) , looking back at what you have completed before you move forward again writing new poems. And you assess your own productivity: some things you assess are literal accomplishments, namely, two published books, a writer's lifestyle, a unique mode of writing poems; other things are intangible but no less real: freedom of your soul, joy, peace and serenity at 66, living a poetical dream. I'm glad you stated your accomplishments so simply and directly, giving yourself proper credit, unshadowed by false modesty.