Physicist to Poet

As physicist, I did relent

when I retired I folded tent...

decided to leave that fab field,

and see what poet’s lives can yield.

I heard that poets don’t get rich

and oft to prose smart writers switch.

Twenty-seven hundred poems

published in my ten books of gems

never made me wealthy,

but readers keep my mind healthy.

Thousands at home and foreign bent

have never had to pay one cent...

because love shown when they return

prove for my poetry they yearn.