Fifty-Seven's Not Afraid of Silence
A philosophical number poem about a woman who visits the altar of her soul. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Allégro. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube.
Forty-Three Finds Happiness in Being
A philosophical number poem about someone who has learned that losses in one area of life can result in gains in another, and vice versa. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Borderless. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Sixty-Eight Sings Silently of Light
A philosophical number poem for someone immersed in the beauty of the moment. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Renaissance Castle. By Douglas Maxwell. Music free to use at YouTube.
Now Is Just the Time for Non-Stop Jazz
A number poem for a ninety-five-year-old jazz critic and aficionado. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Staycation. By Corbyn Kites. Music free to use at YouTube.
Thirty-Seven Is Immersed in Beauty
A number poem about the rewards of a career in music. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Vanity Reprise. By Text Me Records/Leviathe. Music free to use at YouTube.
Forty-Seven Listens to Her Music
A philosophical number poem for someone who listens to her inner music. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Renaissance Castle. By Doug Maxwell. Music free to use at YouTube.
Sixty-Five Suspends Her Animation
A philosophical number poem for a singer-songwriter who uses her past as the soil for her creation. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Away. By Geographer. Music free to use at YouTube.
Thirty-Five Has All the Joy He Needs
A philosophical number poem for a youth-orchestra conductor whose glorious visions will never be realized. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Gymnopedie No. 1. By Erik Satie. Music free to use at YouTube.
Thirty-Four Sings Softly in the Moonlight
A philosophical number poem about the desire to share beauty. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Immortality. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Fifty-Eight Comes Often to the Table
A political and philosophical number poem about a political activist who delights in life. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Wander. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube.
Fifty-Nine Takes Pleasure in Exposing
A political number poem about a political activist who sees the evil of merely accepting everyday oppression. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Chariots of Fire. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
The Sun Was Salmon on Water
A philosophical number poem about the desire of youth to escape into an open mind. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Elegy. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
Seventy-Three Refocuses on Love
A religious number poem about a love that blesses all equally at any age. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Parzival. By William Rosati. Music free to use at YouTube.
Fantasy Starts Running Out of Room
A number poem about the shallower stage available for fantasy as one reaches middle age. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video Music: Frozen in Love. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Thirty-Six Is an Island in a River
A number poem about thirty-six as situated between a richly remembered childhood and an uncertain future. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Nocturne. By Asher Fulero. Music free to use at YouTube.
Seven! Seven! Not Eleven!
A 7th-birthday number poem for a child about the wonder and excitement of now. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Mr. Sunny Face. By Wayne Jones. Music free to use at YouTube.
There You Are, Smack in the Middle of Life
A number poem for a thirty-five-year-old who is for the first time overwhelmed by adult responsibilities. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Borderless. By Aakash Gandhi. Music free to use at YouTube.
Fifty Years, and You Remain a Child
A number 50th birthday poem to an adult child about love that endures. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Beneath the Moonlight. By Aaron Kenny. Music free to use at YouTube.
Forty-One Finds Grace in Every Moment
A philosophical number poem about everyday epiphanies. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Allégro. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube.
Sing of the Eternal Moment
A philosophical number poem to an actor about the eternal moments created by art. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Gymnopedie No. 1. By Erik Satie. Music free to use at YouTube.
Twenty-Seven's Not a Time for Scheming
A number poem for someone still immersed in preparing for the future. © by Nicholas Gordon Video and Audio Music: Renaissance Castle. By Doug Maxwell. Music free to use at YouTube.
Even Trees Awake to a Breakfast of Light
A number poem for Arbor Day imagining the inner life of trees. © by Nicholas Gordon. Video and Audio Music: Allégro. By Emmit Fenn. Music free to use at YouTube.
There Are Good Things About Being Forty
A poem about being forty years old: There are good things about being forty: Still young and attractive, still Free to try again, Knowing what we know now. Not so bad being forty: Not old and sick, not Dying, but still Close enough to understand. Havin
Sing of the Grassroots Politics of Love
A political number poem about politics and love.
There Is No Happiness Without Love
A number poem to a pre-teen about the importance of love: There is no happiness without love – Whatever, whomever matters, of course, but love. Every choice you make should be for love, Leading you to live a life of love, Vested deeply in the work you lo