You're Eight

May 25, 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 an eight year old.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

You're eight! You're eight!

Now isn't that great?

You can't be seven --

It's too late!

You can't be nine --

You'll have to wait!

This is your year

For being eight!

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/youre8.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

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

Sing, Little Madeline

May 23, 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 little girl of about 5 – 7.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Sing, little Madeline! Sing for joy!

Your birthday is today!

Perhaps you’ll get a doll or toy

With which to dance and play.

Perhaps you’ll have a birthday cake

With candles to blow out,

A celebration for your sake

With loved ones all about.

Sing, little Madeline! Sing a song

Of happiness and pleasure!

This day is your day all day long,

A day that you will treasure.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

Happy Sixth Anniversary3

May 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a sixth anniversary poem about choosing love.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Happy sixth anniversary!

A time to think of time.

Perhaps one chooses freely;

Perhaps there's a design.

Years tell a simple story,

Some would say foretold,

In which, through choice unchanging,

Xeroxing their we,

The lovers remain loving,

Having once struck gold.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/happ72.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting

May 20: Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

May 21: Even as the Years Accumulate

May 22: Happy Sixth Anniversary3

Even as the Years Accumulate

May 21, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is an eighth anniversary poem about the love beneath the years.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Even as the years accumulate,

In love there is a wonder always there,

Grace like light along a dark horizon,

Harbinger of sunrise in the heart,

Taking us each dawning by surprise.

Years pile up like leaves, disintegrate,

Each memory a seedling that we share

As we become entangled in a rhizome

Rich with roots we cannot tell apart,

Selves made one on which each self relies.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/evena4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting

May 20: Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

May 21: Even as the Years Accumulate

Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

May 20, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is a 23^rd anniversary poem about a love that endures beneath the everyday world.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here among the dishes, pots, and pans,

Ants and spiders, fungi, mites, and mold,

Pastries, pastas, fears of growing old,

Passions, plaints, pills, purposes, and plans;

Yes, here among arthritic, blue-veined hands,

The whispered warnings of the coming cold;

Well-worn tales all-too-often told,

Easy words too clear to understand;

Nestled deep beneath this restless sea,

These waves that break above our sunken shores,

Yearning, turning, yearning yet again,

There we are, somehow still in love.

How beautiful! The land of you and me,

Innocent beyond all care or cause,

Restoring in Atlantis Eden’s reign

Deep below the world in which we move.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/herea4.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting

May 20: Here Among the Dishes, Pots, and Pans

Eight Years and Counting

May 19, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is anniversaries.

Today’s poem is an eighth anniversary poem about the sweetness of loving.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Eight years and counting! How sweet the wonton ways!

In mutual love there’s freedom to enjoy

Gifts given for the sheer delight of giving.

How beautiful to love and to be loved!

The simple formula for happiness.

Yet love, yes, even love must have its days,

Enduring moments when one would destroy

All that lingers at the heart of living.

Remember in those times the time you moved

So shyly, joyfully, towards innocence.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/8years.html. For more anniversary poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/anniversarypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Anniversaries.

May 16: The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River

May 17: Happiness Has Much to Recommend It

May 18: Heaven Is a Place Within the Heart

May 19: Eight Years and Counting