Poet John

His inspiration well has dried his best days long gone
Though his best poems will outlive him the old poet John
Unmarried and childless in his mid eighties Ann the woman to be his wife
In her mid twenties in a motor car accident lost her life
On grieving her passing he discovered poetry
In his best poems he has created his own history
For many years he was the region's leading poet
And by the literary critics one seen as of literary note
But it looks like that time has become the poet's foe
His last poem by him written a few years ago
A nice man by many well liked and well known
As a poet he was once in a class of his own
He wrote his last poem a few years ago
It does look like time has become Poet John's foe.