And when at the height of my youth I was driving the tandem of prose and poetry at a furious rate, Loken's unstinted appreciation kept my energies from flagging for a moment.

Is it there where the young student sits, with his head bent over his books, and his mind straying in youth's dream-land; where prose is prowling on the desk, and poetry hiding in the heart?

He has ever participated in the National Meeting on Literary Creation by Young Writers, the "Youth Poetry Meeting" by the Poetry Periodical and the National Prose-Poetry Pen Club.