You Are Five

May 28, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays. If you would like to use any of these poems, please feel free to change the names and/or genders in them.

Today’s poem is a birthday poem for a five-year-old girl who can read.

I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You are five!

A big girl now!

Reading on your own!

I know you can

'Cause look at this:

You've just read this poem!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/your5.html. For more birthday poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/birthdaypoems.html . For more poems to children, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/childrenpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays.

May 23: Sing, Little Madeline

May 24: You’re Four

May 25: You’re Eight

May 26: Maddy Is Four Years Old Today

May 27: One5

May 28: You Are Five