Sixty-Five3

April 13, 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 singer/songwriter who has reached the age of 65.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sixty-five suspends her animation,

Immersed within a wistful melody.

Xylophones accompany her song,

The wave of wonder rising from her sea,

Yearning overwhelming all sensation.

For her the past is neither right nor wrong.

Instead it is the soil for her creation,

Vast fields of darkness sown by memory,

Ever yielding tunes she must pass on.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/65c.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