Eleven Is the Very Best Age to Be

March 30, 2019

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

An eleventh birthday poem saying that each age is the best age equally:

Eleven is the very best age to be!

Like ten and twelve, thirteen, eight, and seven.

Each age is the best age equally.

Very strange, but true. And so eleven

Enters your life as the best age ever for you.

Now’s always best. Don’t you think so, too?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

3/26: You’re Five

3/27: Six Years Old? How Can That Be

3/28: You’re Seven Years Old

3/29: Eight Years Old! A Happy Time

3/30: Eleven Is the Very Best Age to Be

Eight Years Old! A Happy Time

March 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

An eighth birthday poem saying that eight is just the right age for an eight year old:

Eight years old! A happy time!

Is it just right for you?

Good! Because you aren’t nine!

Happiness comes to

Those who love what’s true.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

3/26: You’re Five

3/27: Six Years Old? How Can That Be

3/28: You’re Seven Years Old

3/29: Eight Years Old! A Happy Time

You're Seven Years Old

March 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A seventh birthday poem about the birthday child as the star of the day:

You're seven years old! Hooray! Hooray!

Now isn't this your lucky day?

You'll get a cake, and presents, too,

And all this hoopla, just for you!

Now aren't you special? Aren't you great?

The person that we celebrate?

Oh, yes! Oh yes! You are! You are!

On your birthday, you're the star!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

3/26: You’re Five

3/27: Six Years Old? How Can That Be

3/28: You’re Seven Years Old

Six Years Old? How Can That Be

March 27, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A sixth birthday poem about how swiftly time goes by:

Six years old? How can that be?

Just weeks ago, you were three!

I remember! Yes, I do!

Just months ago, you were two!

Oh, my! Oh, my! The time goes by!

And now you're six? Please tell me, why?

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

3/26: You’re Five

3/27: Six Years Old? How Can That Be

You're Five

March 26, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A fifth birthday poem about how long the child has been alive:

You're five! You're five!

So long alive!

So many years

You've had your ears!

And had your nose!

And had your toes!

So Happy Birthday, little one!

We hope you have a lot of fun!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

3/26: You’re Five

Brenda Is Four

March 25, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is children’s birthdays.

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

A fourth birthday poem about how fast a child grows:

Brenda is four!

Soon she'll grow more.

Soon she won't fit

Through the front door!

Soon she'll be bigger

Than you ever saw --

Too big for the house!

Too big for the floor!

Ouch! Brenda cried

As she fell through the floor.

And what do you know?

Soon she'll grow more!

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Children’s Birthdays

3/25: Brenda Is Four

Joy Is Not a Treasure You Can Lose

March 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 epitaphs.

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

An epitaph for a musician:

Joy is not a treasure you can lose.

Unless you will not, you will be consoled.

Linger with me long as you may choose.

In music as in life no joy is cold.

Undo, then, the tight corset of your grief

So that you might enjoy the moment's keening.

Give ear to music, eloquent though brief,

Restoring to the miracle its meaning.

Of all we think and feel and say and do,

So little, really, must be bound by time.

Still palpable, I'm here with all of you,

Musical as ever in this rhyme.

All I was, I am, and yet will be,

No less in love, although in memory.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Epitaphs

3/18: Bulldogs Don’t Let Go of What They’ve Got

3/19: Reason Is a Calling of the Heart

3/20: Unlike Some, to Me Death Was a Gift

3/21: Clarity Is Something That I Savored

3/22: All of You Must Know How Much I Loved You

3/23: Do Believe I’ll Never Leave You

3/24: Joy Is Not a Treasure You Can Lose