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All poems: copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Free scrapbook poems
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• One
• One2
• One3
• One4
• Two
• Three
• Four
• Four2
• Five
• Six
• Seven
• Eight
• Nine
• Ten
• Ten2
• Eleven
• Twelve
• Thirteen
• Fashion for Yourself a Perfect Mirror (14)
• Fifteen
• Fie on These Earthlings (15)
• For You Life Ought to Be a Silver Dancer (15)
• Sixteen
• So Far Away, Yet We Are Near (16)
• Sweet Sixteens Are Harbingers of Grace
• Seventeen
• Seventeen2
• Seventeen3
• Society Is You and Me (17)
• Eighteen
• Eighteen2
• Eighteen3
• Nineteen
• No More Favors, Please! (19)
• Twenty
• Twenty2
• Twenty-One
• Time Diminishes What We Require (21)
• Tough and Lovely (21)
• Twenty-Two
• Twenty-Two2
• Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me (22)
• The Face Is a Mask over a Mirror (22)
• Truth Is Just the Opposite of Sense (23)
• Twenty-Four
• The Center Stage Is Empty (24)
• The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain (24)
• Today's an Ocean Which You Sail Forever (24)
• Twenty-Five
• The Former Lord of Jersey Stitches Pants (25)
• The Los Angeles of 1958 (25)
• There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown (25)
• There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine (25)
• To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope (25)
• Twenty-Six
• There Are Walls Beyond Satisfaction (26)
• Twenty-Seven
• Twenty-Seven2
• The Story Says: Steal the Magic Jewels (27)
• The Thought Electric Wings Across the Shallows (27)
• To Be Happy, One Must Know the Rules (27)
• To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy (27)
• Twenty-Eight
• Twenty-Eight2
• Twenty-Eight3
• The Child Was Merely Accidental (28)
• Twenty-Nine
• The First True Sign of Love Is Anger (29)
• The Mountains Aren't Near Enough to Heaven (29)
• Truth Is a Passion Uncontrolled by Sense (29)
• Thirty
• Thirty2
• Thirty3
• Thirty4
• Thirty5
• There Is No Darkness in You (30)
• Thirty-One
• Thirty-One2
• The Earth Does Not Regret Its Times of Mourning (31)
• The Thirties: When Dreams Crash Against the Shore (31)
• To Find All Cause Within the Present Being (31)
• Truth Is Rarely an Expression of Love (31)
• Thirty-Two
• Thirty-Two2
• Thirty-Two3
• Thirty-Two4
• Tough to Know You're in Your Prime (32)
• Thirty-Three
• Thirty-Three2
• Thirty-Three3
• The Mountains Seem as Distant as the Years (33)
• The Road to Hope Leads Through Delayed Despair (33)
• Time Is Not a River but a Sea (33)
• Thirty-Four
• Thirty-Four2
• Thirty-Four3
• Thirty-Four4
• Thirty-Four5
• Thirty-Five
• Thirty-Five2
• Thirty-Five3
• Thirty-Five4
• Thirty-Five5
• Thirty-Five6
• Thirty-Six
• Thirty-Six2
• Thirty-Six3
• Time Teaches Us to Love (36)
• Thirty-Seven
• Thirty-Seven2
• Thirty-Seven3
• To Be Sure, There Aren't Many Happy Seahorses (37)
• Thirty-Eight
• Thirty-Eight2
• The Way to Look at Life Is Upside Down (38)
• There Is No Garden Guaranteed to Bloom (38)
• Thirty-Nine
• Talk Is a Phobic Reaction (39)
• The Ocean that We Live on Has No Shore (39)
• There Are No Words to Say How Much I Love You (39)
• To Tell the Truth, I Cannot Tell Your Age (39)
• Forty
• Forty2
• There Are Good Things About Being Forty
• Fear Not the Fairest Fortunes of Your Heart (40)
• For You This Birthday Ought to Be a Sun (40)
• For You This Birthday Ought to Be a Sun2 (40)
• Forty-One
• Forgive Me if I Come into Your Bed (41)
• Future Selves Must Wait, Apart (41)
• Forty-Two
• For Ancient Trees Weeping Once a Year (42)
• Forty-Three
• For You the Earth Must Be a Greener Green (43)
• Forty-Five
• Fire Comes in Many Hopes and Sizes (45)
• Forty-Six
• Forever Is like Getting Off a Train (46)
• For Every Rose There Is a Separate Spring (47)
• Fly upon Imaginary Wings (48)
• Forty-Nine
• Fifty
• Fifty2
• Fifty3
• Face the Passing Years as Though a Painting (50)
• Fifty Years a Sojourner, Uncertain Guest (50)
• For a Mother, a Daughter, a Teacher, and a Friend (50)
• For Some Life Is Too Full, and Overflows (50)
• For Your Fiftieth Birthday Let Us Sing
• Fifty-One
• Fate Is Oft the Filament of Passion (51)
• For All the Years I've Wandered Through My Life (51)
• Fifty-Two
• Fifty-Two2
• Fifty-Two3
• Fifty-Three
• Fifty-Three2
• Fashion Finds No Favor in Your Heart (53)
• Fifty-Four
• Fifty-Four2
• Forever Is a Metaphor for Now (54)
• Fifty-Five
• Fifty-Six
• Fifty-Six2
• Fifty-Seven
• Fifty-Seven2
• Fifty-Eight
• Fifty-Eight2
• Fifty-Nine
• Sixty
• Sixty-One
• Shall I Compare Thee to a Summer's Day (61)
• Sixty-Two
• Sixty-Three
• Sing a Song of Sweet but Silent Beauty (64)
• Sixty-Five
• Sing of All the Goodness You've Been Granted (65)
• So May You Know the Pleasures of Your State (65)
• Sixty-Six
• Sixty-Eight
• Seventy
• Seventy2
• Sing for All the Years You Have Been Granted (70)
• Sing Me an Old-Age Lullaby (74)
• Single Life Is Hard for Those Who've Shared (75)
• So Many Times I've Watched My Time Go By (75)
• Sole Proprietor and Only Inmate (77)
• Each Moment of Love Remains like a Song (80)
• Everyday Suns Are Rarely Wonders (82)
• Early On, There's a Point to Regret (84)
• When One Has Reached the Age of Eighty-Five
• Emptiness Costs a Bit Extra (86)
• Even a Mole-Rat Relishes the Sweetness (87)
• Even Trees Awake to a Breakfast of Light (89)
• Ninety
• Nearer Things Must Take the Place of Stars (91)
• Ninety-Two
• Ninety-Three
• Ninety-Four
• No Better Time than Now Can Be Imagined (94)
• Need Is Nothing More than Strong Desire (95)
• One Hundred