Few are truly ecumenical in their tastes; most of us have our favored corners. My delight comes mostly from light verse, or poetry that was written before 1950. Not that the particular year is important, but I revert to a time before the confessionalists and post modernists, when poets were a little more reserved and when meter and rhyme still were thought to be worth the effort. So, here are the efforts of an unabashed “rhymer” on a set of projects ranging through, art, politics and science (plus a little personal history).