One Hundred

April 17, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is aging: the changes in perspective, health, wisdom, and satisfaction.

Today’s poem is a number poem for a 100 year old.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

One hundred is a milestone indeed!

Now one knows at least one has lived long.

Even so, life finds much good to read,

Having loved good reading all along.

Underneath the years one still has wonder,

Naked as it was when it was born,

Delighted to be blessed a little longer,

Reluctant to request much of the dawn.

Each year of life's a gift of grace untold.

Do, then, find pleasure rich in growing old.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/100.html. For more number poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/numberpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Aging.

April 11: Seventy-Four

April 12: Adages of Age

April 13: Sixty-Five

April 14: Melissa

April 15: Seventy-Two

April 16: How Will I Know Which Way to Go

April 17: One Hundred