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All poems: copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Free scrapbook poems
permission to use
provided by the author.

• A Gift's Been Given in Your Loved One's Name
• Before One Reads the Torah (Bar- and Bat Mitzvah)
• Bless You, My Sweet Miracle (Baptism)
• Farewell, My Friend and Confidante
• First Communion Is a Mystery
• Gifts Come, More Times than Not, as Obligations (On Being Named a Godparent)
• Given the Fragility of Life (Get Well)
• Goodbye, My Darling Foster Child
• Goodbye, My Lover and My Friend (To a Soldier Going Off to War)
• Great Bosses Grant the Glory They Receive (Goodbye to a Boss)
• Retirement May Not Be What It Seems
• Retirement Requires a Goodbye
• Some Losses Seem to Augur Endless Night (Sympathy)
• Souls Do Not Disintegrate and Die (Sympathy)
• Thank You for Preparing Me for Baptism
• Thank You for Your Recent Contribution (in a deceased's name)
• The Thing About Tea Parties
• There Is No Moment Large Enough to Hold (Retirement of a Teacher)