Number Poems for Free

Here is some number poetry, suitable for birthdays, that you are free to use for any personal or non-commercial purpose. For a more detailed explanation of terms of use, click on Home. For other kinds of poetry, click on Contents. All poems: copyright by Nicholas Gordon. If you would like to read or buy my poetry or fiction in book form, click on Bookstore. As in any bookstore, you can either buy or just browse. If you would like to read my fiction, click on Fiction.  Please direct all email correspondence to the webmaster at poemsforfree.com. Please direct all correspondence by mail to Nicholas Gordon, P.O. Box 3043, Fort Lee, NJ 07024. You can read my poetry on your cell phone at http://poemsforfree.mobi .

Music: Carolan's Concerto By Turlough O'Carolan.  Sequenced by Barry Taylor.

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One One2 One3 One4 One5 One6  Two Two2 Three Three2 Four Four2 I Am Four 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 Need Is Not the Motive for Invention (19) No More Favors, Please! (19) Twenty Twenty2 Twenty3 Twenty-One Twenty-One2 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 Twenty-Six2 There Are Walls Beyond Satisfaction (26) Twenty-Seven Twenty-Seven2 Twenty-Seven3 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 Twenty-Nine2 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 Thirty6 There Is No Darkness in You (30) Thirty-One Thirty-One2 Thirty-One3 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 Thirty-Six4 Thirty-Six5 Time Teaches Us to Love (36) To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty (36) Thirty-Seven Thirty-Seven2 Thirty-Seven3 Thirty-Seven4 Thirty-Seven5 Thirty-Seven6 To Be Sure, There Aren't Many Happy Seahorses (37) Thirty-Eight Thirty-Eight2 Thirty-Eight3 Thirty-Eight4 Thirty-Eight5 Thirty-Eight6 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) There Is No Treasure Greater than Your Love (39) To Tell the Truth, I Cannot Tell Your Age (39) Forty Forty2 Forty3 Forty4 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 Forty-One2 Forgive Me if I Come into Your Bed (41) Future Selves Must Wait, Apart (41) Forty-Two Forty-Two2 For Ancient Trees Weeping Once a Year (42) Forty-Three Forty-Three2 For You the Earth Must Be a Greener Green (43) Forty-Four Forty-Five Forty-Five2 Fire Comes in Many Hopes and Sizes (45) Forty-Six Forty-Six2 Forever Is like Getting Off a Train (46) Forty-Seven For Every Rose There Is a Separate Spring (47) Forty-Eight Fly upon Imaginary Wings (48) Forty-Nine Forty-Nine2 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 Fifty-Four3 Forever Is a Metaphor for Now (54) Fifty-Five Fifty-Five2 Fifty-Six Fifty-Six2 Fifty-Seven Fifty-Seven2 Forget that You Are Much Esteemed and Loved (57) Fifty-Eight Fifty-Eight2 Fifty-Eight3 Fifty-Nine Fifty-Nine2 Fifty-Nine3 Sixty Sixty2 Sixty3 Sixty Years Is Cause Enough to Sing 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 Some Find It Quite Sufficient to Endure (66) Some Find Their Identity in Courage (66) Sixty-Seven Sixty-Eight Sixty-Eight2 Sixty-Nine Sixty-Nine2 Seventy Seventy2 Sing for All the Years You Have Been Granted (70) Seventy-One Seventy-Two Seventy-Three 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) Seventy-Six Sole Proprietor and Only Inmate (77) Seventy-Eight Seventy-Nine Eighty Each Moment of Love Remains like a Song (80) Eighty-One Eighty-Two Everyday Suns Are Rarely Wonders (82) Eighty-Three Early On, There's a Point to Regret (84) When One Has Reached the Age of Eighty-Five Emptiness Costs a Bit Extra (86) Eighty-Seven Even a Mole-Rat Relishes the Sweetness (87) Eighty-Eight Eighty-Nine 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) Ninety-Six Ninety-Seven Ninety-Eight Ninety-Nine One Hundred