Five: A Poem About What Five Year Olds Like

February 28, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem about what five year olds like:

Five year olds like books and bears,
Ibises and rocking chairs,
Violets, peaches, pandas, pears,
Elephants, horses, hats, and hares.

 © by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

2/28: Five: A poem about what five year olds like.

Four: A Poem About the Secret of Happiness

February 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem for a four year old about the secret of happiness:

Four years old is just what I am now.

Of all the ages, four years old is best

Until I'm five, and so on with the rest.

Remember: to be happy, this is how.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

2/27: Four: A poem about the secret of happiness.

Three: A Poem About the Gift of Childhood Imagination

February 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem for a three year old about the gift of childhood imagination:

Three year olds parade around the room,

Half here and half not-here. The radiant mind

Renders worlds upon its magic loom,

Even as adults watch from their gloom,

Enchanted with the gift they left behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

2/26: Three: A poem about the gift of childhood imagination.

One: A Poem About Delight in Simply Being

February 25, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is one-digit number poems for children under ten.

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

A number poem about the delight of a one year old in simply being:

One is like the first fish from the sea:

Near crazy with delight merely to be,

Each stone or star an equal mystery.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: One-Digit Number Poems for Children under Ten

2/25: One: A poem about delight in simply being.

For Vegans, There Are Blessings from the Future

February 24, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which is celebrated on February 20.

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

A number poem about people in the future looking back gratefully on present-day vegans as having made a significant political choice:

For vegans, there are blessings from the future.

One takes pleasure in them in advance,

Relishing the grateful backward glance

Towards oneself from those who’ll cherish nature,

Yet know that it did not survive by chance.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/18: Here We Have No Harbingers

2/19: Borders Are Obscenities

2/20: Twenty-Nine4

2/21: Justice and Deterrence

2/22: First Step

2/23: The Secretary-General at Midnight

2/24: For Vegans, There Are Blessings from theFuture

The Secretary-General at Midnight

February 23, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which is celebrated on February 20.

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

A political poem about an imaginary Secretary-General of the United Nations thinking about the possibility of a nuclear holocaust:

The Secretary-General at midnight

Having spent a long day on his knees:

Even as the Earth twirls towards twilight,

Sovereign states do ever as they please,

Each doomed along with all, as none foresees.

Challenged, the one nation that must lead

Reiterates its reasons to refuse,

Even as the barracuda breed,

Threatening a game that all must lose,

A chance no gambler, crazed or drunk, would choose.

Restricted to the power of persuasion,

Yielding, naturally, but scant success;

Given but the stature of his station,

Eliciting fine words to please the press;

Near desperate, he starts slowly to undress.

Elevate your legs, he thinks, and then

Reclines as usual, and then again

Alights, and feels the Earth beneath him spin,

Longing more and more for less and less.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/18: Here We Have No Harbingers

2/19: Borders Are Obscenities

2/20: Twenty-Nine4

2/21: Justice and Deterrence

2/22: First Step

2/23: The Secretary-General at Midnight

First Step

February 22, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics, in honor of Presidents Day, which is celebrated on February 20.

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

A political poem written for a non-profit organization in Nepal called First Step:

First step towards a better life,

One step at a time.

First step towards enough for all,

One step at a time.

First step to preserve the land,

One step at a time.

First step towards a world at peace,

One step at a time.

First step, first step,

One must take the first step.

First step, first step,

We will take the first step.

First step, first step,

Come take with us the first step.

First step towards a job for all,

One step at a time.

First step towards free time for all,

One step at a time.

First step towards free school for all,

One step at a time.

First step towards healthcare for all,

One step at a time.

First step, first step,

One must take the first step.

First step, first step,

We will take the first step.

First step, first step,

Come take with us the first step.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Politics

2/18: Here We Have No Harbingers

2/19: Borders Are Obscenities

2/20: Twenty-Nine4

2/21: Justice and Deterrence

2/22: First Step