The Master

A northerner, a scholar and a bard

Enthusiastic master of the word

Old guard by choice but also avant garde

A poet, artist, fan of the absurd

A mentor, leader, coach and versifier

His lines are scribbled with a wordsmith’s heart

Collaborator able to inspire

those grateful for the wisdom he imparts

This tribute may be sentimental mush

but thanks are due and sometimes must be said

and as I have a tendency to gush

a sonnet seemed to fit the bill instead

Such beauty in the poems he has penned

A man I’ve never met but call my friend