Book excerpt: What you will read in the pages here are poems that are new from the life of an 85 year old man, one who has published two other books of poetry; New Poems by an Old Man, July 2021 and A Year in the Life of a Poet, December 2023. This book covers the 400 poems between those two volumes and is by far the largest., I am a retired tool and mechanical engineer, a former linguistics missionary in Serra Leone, West Africa, tree trimmer, wood worker, with wide ranging interests. Enter at your own risk.