You're Four

May 24, 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 four-year-old boy.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You’re four! You’re four!

A big boy now!

But not as big

As a horse or cow!

You’re bigger than

A bee or ant,

But not as big

As an elephant!

You’re bigger than

A monkey’s tail,

But not as big

As a humpback whale!

You’re bigger than

You were before.

Then you were three,

But now you’re four!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/youre4.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