see the grey old man in the photograph
—A grandfather I had never known—
see his cane and withered hands and wonder
what must it have been like
to live his life of literary abandon.
The picture belies the paths of the man,
showing no signs of wars or lost loves,
this portrait of the insect librarian
only illuminates the black and white
and not the colours of his life.
From boy to man a student of life,
A soldier; poet; lover,
he lived the journey,
becoming where his interests led.
A father; philosopher;
book-man of kings,
he carried his name to where he died.
This man I never knew
with strange connections through poetry,
like me, yet unlike,
stares back from the picture
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Thank you for sharing, keep up the good work. 
