A Glimpse of a Person in Poems about Nature

The evening I returned from my west coast trip, I did my best to quell my fatigue and lead a library workshop about writing poems from nature. A woman there told how, though she's in her sixties, she often writes the sort of poems "I should have been writing as a teenager. But I don't want to seem self indulgent." Now there's a word few poets or people in general should bandy about. Yes, I've read poems that seem too deep in the grip of a single person, but that was the last thing this poet n...