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by Nicholas Gordon

• Tahira
• Tai
• Take a Little Time to Feel Your Love
• Take from Winter Just a Bit of Hope
• Take Me, for Example: I'm Pretty Attractive, No
• Take Me to Your Leader
• Take It as a Given that I Love You
• Talk Is a Phobic Reaction
• Talk to Me as Lovers Do
• Tara
• Tara2
• Tarah and Serrin Have Not Passed Away
• Tashina Is a Cry of Liberation
• Taylor
• Taylor2
• Teachers Are the Sculptors of Young Lives
• Teachers Dwell in Some Far-Distant Heaven
• Teachers Flow like Mountain Streams
• Teachers Teach What They Will Never Know
• Tears Flow Down to Endless Streams of Sadness
• Tears Restore Hydraulically Our Balance
• Tell Me More, My Love, How Much You Love Me
• Tell Me, Please, Whom I Ought to Thank
• Tell the World How Lovely Is the Earth
• Ten
• Ten2
• Ten Years of Love's a Mystery of Grace
• Ten Years! Such a Round, Emphatic Number
• Teolan Takes the Time to Take Her Time
• Terror Must Be Beaten Back by Justice
• Thank God for Pendulums
• Thank You All for All That You Have Done
• Thank You All for Coming Here
• Thank You for a Memorable Evening
• Thank You for All That You Have Done
• Thank You for All That You Have Given
• Thank You for Being Our Guardian Angel
• Thank You for Being Our Heroes and Friends
• Thank You for Being Simply the Best
• Thank You for Being Such a Good Friend
• Thank You for Being the Heart of My Life
• Thank You for Being the Love of My Life
• Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went
• Thank You for Coming
• Thank You for Coming2
• Thank You for Coming and Sharing My Day
• Thank You for Coming and Sharing Our Day
• Thank You for Having Faith in Me
• Thank You for Helping Me to Die
• Thank You for Leaving Me Your Son
• Thank You for Listening
• Thank You for Loving Me
• Thank You for Loving Us
• Thank You for Naming Yours after Our Own
• Thank You for Opening a Door for Me
• Thank You for Preparing Me for Baptism
• Thank You for Staying in My Life
• Thank You for the Favor of Your Seed
• Thank You for the Gift of Being Thankful
• Thank You for the Gift of Life
• Thank You for the Gift of Understanding
• Thank You for the Gift of Understanding2
• Thank You for the Happiness We Shared
• Thank You for the Harvest and the Healing
• Thank You for the Heart Your Loved One Gave Me
• Thank You for the Love You've Shown Our Child
• Thank You for the Lovely Card
• Thank You for the Things You've Done for Me
• Thank You for You: For Who You Are
• Thank You for Your Friendship and Your Love
• Thank You for Your Generous Gift
• Thank You for Your Good and Gentle Care
• Thank You for Your Letters, Cards, and Calls
• Thank You for Your Love Throughout the Years
• Thank You for Your Love Throughout the Years (2)
• Thank You for Your Recent Contribution
• Thank You, Mom, for Making Us
• Thank You's Are like Candy as a Meal
• Thank You's Are like Minarets
• Thank You's Howl like Wind Across the Dead
• Thanksgiving Is a Moment to Remember
• Thanksgiving Is a Time for Giving Thanks
• The Air Is Sheer Perfume
• The Apartment Is Dark
• The Attack of the Romans on the Celts at Ynes Mon
• The Ballad of Peter and Jake
• The Blank Page Beckons like a Holy Book
• The Being of Being is Being
• The Bells Ring Not for Just These Two
• The Bond of Love Is Not Desire, but Need
• The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane
• The Center Stage Is Empty
• The Chance of Happiness Equals the Risk of Pain
• The Child Was Merely Accidental
• The Coaches I Have Had Here Have Been Giants
• The Day of Love Requires a Companion
• The Destruction of the Indies
• The Difference Between Love and Lust
• The Dinosaurs All Celebrate
• The Druids Thought the Mistletoe
• The Earth Does Not Regret Its Times of Mourning
• The Easter Bunny Loves to Hop
• The Empty Lot Is Claimed by Wildflowers
• The Enslavement of the Caribbeans: Columbus' Second Voyage
• The Face Is a Mask over a Mirror
• The Fire of Love
• The First True Sign of Love Is Anger
• The Forced Separation of Indigenous Children from Their Parents: Australia
• The Former Lord of Jersey Stitches Pants
• The Forturnate Have More to Thank than Fortune
• The Future Has No Indians
• The Gift of Being Cannot Be a Given
• The Gift of Life Is Never More or Less
• The Girls Meet Once a Month
• The Glad/Sad/Scared/Mad Menu
• The Greatest Gifts Are Those That Cost Us Least
• The Greatest Satisfaction Comes
• The Happiness I Feel at Your Achievements
• The Holidays Are Waiting
• The Last Depression Led to Holocaust
• The Little Ivy Stretches Towards the Light
• The Lord Has Been Merciful to Me
• The Lord Is the Lord of All Nations
• The Los Angeles of 1958
• The Luck in Love Lies Mainly at the Start
• The Market Is a Merciless Beast
• The Meaning of Eternity
• The More I Am Away from You
• The Mountains Aren't Near Enough to Heaven
• The Mountains Seem as Distant as the Years
• The Murderous Middle Class
• The Night I Tried to Kill Myself
• The Night My Heart Stopped
• The Ocean that We Live on Has No Shore
• The Only Hope for Happiness
• The Only Hope Is that There Is No Hope
• The Only True Idea
• The Only Way Out Seems to Lead Further In
• The Pain Will Never Go Away
• The Parents of a Graduate
• The Party Was a Gift I'll Long Remember
• The Past Is like a Sculpture
• The Past Is Never Over
• The Perfect Poem Should Flow like Wind
• The Pleasures of Your Life Are Overwhelming
• The Point Is Just that I Don't See the Point
• The Point Is What You Have, Not What You Don't
• The Point of Life Is that There Is No Point
• The Point of Playing Roles Is Demolishing Walls
• The President Was Without Precedent
• The Previous Forecasts Are the Current Needs
• The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride
• The Problem Isn't Simply One of Rules
• The Pursed Lips That Pursue a Vagrant Thought
• The Ravages of Rum: America
• The Ravages of Smallpox: Australia
• The Red Brick House Is Buried in Azaleas
• The Right to Be Different
• The Right to Live as Distinct Peoples
• The Right to Self-Determination
• The Road Ahead Is like the Road Behind
• The Road to Hope Leads Through Delayed Despair
• The Roll Books of the Stars
• The Roots of Hatred
• The Seasons
• The Secretary-General at Midnight
• The Sky Is Falling! The Sky Is Falling!
• The Smartest Way Is Always the Easy Way
• The Story Says: Steal the Magic Jewels
• The Summer Is a Desert Between Mountains
• The Sun Is Filtered Through a Canopy
• The Sun Shines Everywhere
• The Sun Was Salmon on Water
• The Sunlight Is as Passionate as Flowers
• The Tedium, the Flatness of One's Longing
• The Telephone's the Tongue
• The Thing About Tea Parties
• The Thing I Am Most Thankful for Is Love
• The Things We Least Imagine Are What Happen
• The Things You Taught Me I Will Always Know
• The Thirties: When Dreams Crash Against the Shore
• The Thought Electric Wings Across the Shallows
• The Time for Love Is Now Fast Disappearing
• The Time Is Now
• The Tomb of Christ Is But the Bed
• The Trail of Tears
• The Triumph of the Victor
• The Truth Is Far Too Truthful
• The Uncertainty of Certainty
• The Universe Is like a Symphony
• The Universe Is One of Many
• The Vows I Take Will Be Forever
• The Vows You Have Just Taken, Pledging Love
• The Wave Without Becomes a Wave Within
• The Way to Look at Life Is Upside Down
• The Whole Point of Being
• The Wind Brings Down Its Icy Load
• The Wind the River Roils Well
• The Words That Are Simplest
• The World Is Brought to Beauty Heart by Heart
• The World Is Not Sufficiently in Order
• The World Is One Gigantic Jam Session
• The World Might Well Be Remedied
• The World Waits for You to Die, Fidel
• The World's a Notebook Full of Scenes and Stories
• The Years Flow Through Our Marriage like a River
• The Years May Sing of Darkness
• The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over
• Then, There Was No Right to Eat
• Therapists Find Fortune in Misfortune
• There Are for Giving Many Rationales
• There Are Good Things About Being Forty
• There Are Many, Many Ways in Which I Love You
• There Are Mountains Too Beautiful to See
• There Are No Bars to Our Embrace
• There Are No Words to Match My Gratitude
• There Are No Words to Say How Much I Love You
• There Are Some Crimes That Cannot Be Forgiven
• There Are Some Pleasures I Would Try with You
• There Are Those Who Prey on Discontent
• There Are Those Who Shy Away from Being
• There Are Times the Sea Is Sullen Rage
• There Are Times when Happiness Descends
• There Are Times when Life Yields Little Pleasure
• There Are Walls Beyond Satisfaction
• There Aren't Many Things I've Gotten Right
• There Has to Be a Way Across These Mountains
• There Has to Be Some Tension in Attention
• There Is a Beauty in the Color Brown
• There Is a Dark and Gloomy Place
• There Is a Fructifying Sort of Grief
• There Is a Garden in My Heart
• There Is a Joy That Banishes All Reason
• There Is a Love So Certain
• There Is a Mountain Somewhere Near
• There Is a Point to Living Vertically
• There Is a Residue of Hope
• There Is a Time when Freedom Must Be Bound
• There Is Beauty at the Heart of Business
• There Is But Little Hope for Slaves of Fortune
• There Is in Friendship Just a Bit of Eden
• There Is in Grief a Saving Grace
• There Is Much Pleasure in the Love of Learning
• There Is No Armor We Can Wear
• There Is No Being at the Heart of Being
• There Is No Better Bonus than Just You
• There Is No Better Mentor than a Cat
• There Is No Better Painting than a Sunrise
• There Is No Better Time of Life than Now
• There Is No Better Time than Now
• There Is No Darkness in You
• There Is No Difference in the Way I Love You
• There Is No Field as Fertile as Your Love
• There Is No Future Good Enough
• There Is No Garden Guaranteed to Bloom
• There Is No Gift More Precious than One's Health
• There Is No Greater Clarity
• There Is No Greater Miracle than This
• There Is No Greater Paradise
• There Is No Greater Passion than for Beauty
• There Is No Happiness Without Love
• There Is No Hope for Those Who Hope Too Much
• There Is No Hope Without the Help of Grief
• There Is No Jail for the Soul
• There Is No Joy That Does Not Sing of Longing
• There Is No Knowledge -- Only Good Opinion
• There Is No Lasting Love Without Compassion
• There Is No Life Without Its Share of Pain
• There Is No Love Enough for Me to Give You
• There Is No Moment Large Enough to Hold
• There Is No Moment When One's Youth Is Over
• There Is No Mountain Higher than the Wall
• There Is No Point in Being Merely Clever
• There Is No Substance to My Listless Longing
• There Is No Substitute for Gratitude
• There Is No Substitute for Lifelong Longing
• There Is No Threnody for Utter Darkness
• There Is No Treasure Greater than Your Love
• There Is No Virtue in Consistency
• There Is No Way
• There Is Within My Happenstance
• There May Be Some Who've Wondered Why the Rat
• There Was a Time Not Long Ago When I
• There Was No Love More Genuine than Mine
• There You Are, Smack in the Middle of Life
• There'll Never Be a Better Time than Now
• There's a Certain Joy That Enters Me
• There's Beauty in the Barest Breath of Sunshine
• There's No Friend Quite like an Older Sister
• There's No Hurricane
• There's No Love Sweeter than the Love You Feel
• There's No Secret to Nobility
• There's No Understanding What You Did
• There's Nothing Really Wrong with Being Last
• There's Richness in a Love for Life
• Theresa
• Theresa2
• These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me
• These Seeds Are Emblematic of Our Love
• These Seven Months that We Have Been Together
• They Also Serve Themselves Who Lie in Wait
• They Said We'd Never Make It
• Thirteen
• Thirteen2
• Thirteen Is a Very Lucky Number
• Thirty
• Thirty2
• Thirty3
• Thirty4
• Thirty5
• Thirty6
• Thirty7
• Thirty8
• Thirty-Eight
• Thirty-Eight2
• Thirty-Eight5
• Thirty-Eight6
• Thirty-Eight8
• Thirty-Eight Has No Fear of the Future
• Thirty-Eight Is in the Prime of Life
• Thirty-Eight Is More than Just a Number
• Thirty-Eight Is Running for Her Life
• Thirty-Five
• Thirty-Five2
• Thirty-Five3
• Thirty-Five5
• Thirty-Five6
• Thirty-Five7
• Thirty-Five8
• Thirty-Five Has All the Joy He Needs
• Thirty-Five Years Later He Was Gone
• Thirty-Four
• Thirty-Four3
• Thirty-Four4
• Thirty-Four5
• Thirty-Four6
• Thirty-Four Sings Softly in the Moonlight
• Thirty-Four's Devoted to a Dream
• Thirty-Nine
• Thirty-Nine2
• Thirty-Nine3
• Thirty-Nine4
• Thirty-Nine Is Often Full of Wonder
• Thirty-One
• Thirty-One2
• Thirty-One3
• Thirty-One4
• Thirty-One5
• Thirty-Seven
• Thirty-Seven2
• Thirty-Seven3
• Thirty-Seven4
• Thirty-Seven5
• Thirty-Seven7
• Thirty-Seven Is Immersed in Beauty
• Thirty-Seven Savors His Obsessions
• Thirty-Six3
• Thirty-Six4
• Thirty-Six6
• Thirty-Six7
• Thirty-Six Is an Island in a River
• Thirty-Six Knows Well by Now His Goal
• Thirty-Six Sings Well the Song of Life
• Thirty-Three
• Thirty-Three2
• Thirty-Three3
• Thirty-Three4
• Thirty-Three5
• Thirty-Two
• Thirty-Two2
• Thirty-Two3
• Thirty-Two4
• Thirty-Two5
• Thirty-Two6
• Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place
• This Day of Love I Take a Vow
• This First Year of Marriage Has Been the Best
• This Gift
• This Home that You Have Built Is Made of Love
• This Is a Second Marriage for Us Both
• This Is a Time of Extraordinary Hope
• This Is the First Time I Have Ever Loved
• This Is the Third Time We Have Tried This Love
• This Is the Time for Thanking Both of You
• This Isn't Love, Not Quite, Though We Will See
• This Moment Is a Pedestal
• This Mother's Day Without You Strains Belief
• This Truth Is like a Sea That Has No Shore
• This Valentine's I Wish that You Were with Me
• This Will Not Work if You Don't Want to Try
• Thomas
• Those Last Few Years of Helpless Pain
• Those Who Can Help Those Who Need It Most
• Those Who Have Power and No Pity
• Those Who Truly Do Not Know
• Though I Broke My Promise and Your Trust
• Though I Chose Death Instead of Pointless Pain
• Though Life Has Saddened Your Blue Eyes
• Though Mountains May Seem Far More Solid than Seas
• Though New at Fatherhood
• Though This May Be Our Christmas Last
• Though Winter Come, Thy Will Be Done
• Three
• Three2
• Three3
• Three4
• Three5
• Three Holidays! Hooray! Hooray!
• Three Years Together! And Yet How Much More
• Tides Return the Favors They Have Taken
• Tiffany
• Tiffany2
• Time After Time They Come to Destroy Us
• Time and Space Are Dark Grey Clouds
• Time Diminishes What We Require
• Time for Parents Tends to Go Too Fast
• Time Has a Way of Making Life Precious
• Time Has No Open Channel to Despair
• Time, in Time, Eventually Is Timeless
• Time Is a Gift, like Food or Love or Death
• Time Is Not a River but a Sea
• Time Passes like a Stream in Which One Stands
• Time Passes like Music
• Time Rewrites the Contract Every Day
• Time Speeds Up as One Grows Older
• Time Teaches Us to Love, if We Would Learn
• Time Tends to Make the Biggest Problems Small
• Time to Light the Hanukkah Lights
• Tina
• Tina2
• Tina3
• Tina Says She's OK
• To a Friend on His Election to the Jersey City Board of Education
• To a Priest on His Retirement
• To a Stillborn Sister
• To a Terrier
• To Angels, Time Is like a Movie
• To Ask You to Be My Valentine
• To Be a Child at a Parent's Wedding
• To Be a Good Father, What Must One Do?
• To Be an Angel, One Need Not Have Wings
• To Be Consumed by Something More than Beauty
• To Be Happy, One Must Know the Rules
• To Be in Full Bloom Is Not Always Easy
• To Be Is Rarely Totally to Be
• To Be Sure, There Aren't Many Happy Seahorses
• To Be Thirteen Is to Be, Well, a Teen
• To Create a World Requires Passion
• To Daydream Is to Stir the Pot of Hope
• To Ellen, Lady of Such Grace
• To Find All Cause Within the Present Being
• To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love
• To Graduate Is like a Crow
• To Imagine What a Better World Might Be
• To Know Another, One Must Be Insane
• To Live Is to Be Prey
• To Lose Someone Who's Loved You All Your Life
• To Love Is to Be Naked to the Wind
• To Me Your Blackness Is a Hymn to Night
• To Me Your Life Has Been an Inspiration
• To Mrs. Quinn, Queen of Poetry
• To My Brother, the Tree upon My Plain
• To My Dad on His Day
• To My Dads on Father's Day
• To My Grandchild, with Overwhelming Love
• To My Loved One on His Day
• To My Man on Father's Day
• To My Mom
• To My "Sis," from "Lil Sis" (Birthday)
• To My "Sis," from "Lil Sis" (2) (Graduation)
• To My Sister on Her Day (Wedding)
• To My Sister on Her Graduation
• To My Sister on Her Wedding Day
• To My Sister on Mother's Day
• To My Valentine, with All My Love
• To My Wife on Mother's Day
• To Our Big Sister: Happy Graduation
• To Our Loved One Far Away
• To Say Goodbye's Impossible Forever
• To Say You Are My World Means
• To Shelter the American Character from Lasting Dishonor
• To Tell the Truth, I Cannot Tell Your Age
• To Thank You Is a Gift One Gives Oneself
• To the Father of My Children
• To the Founding Fathers
• To the Graduate, No More a Child
• To the Graduate Who Makes Me Smile
• To the Graduate Whose Life I Share
• To the Heroines Still Not Well Known
• To the Mothers of Children Who Never Were Children
• To You a Season of Melodious Tidings
• Today Is the Wedding
• Today's a Day of Love Not Just for Us
• Today's an Ocean Which You Sail Forever
• Today's the Day I Ought to Say I Love You
• Tolerance Is Hard to Tolerate
• Tom Thumb Hockey Coaches Must Be Giants
• Tonight There Are No Stars
• Tonya Has Blue Eyes and Short Red Hair
• Torture Is the Rash of the Disease
• Tory
• Tough and Lovely
• Tough to Know You're in Your Prime
• Trapped Within My Point of View
• Treat Yourself Each Day to Love and Kindness
• Treat Yourself to All the Best of Life
• Treaties Are Made to Be Broken
• Trees About to Bloom, in Bloom, Full-Leaved
• Trees Are Grateful, as Are Squash and Squirrels
• Trevor Is a Dancing Cavalier
• Trina Is a Passionate Delight
• Truth Is a Passion Uncontrolled by Sense
• Truth Is Just the Opposite of Sense
• Truth Is Rarely an Expression of Love
• Truth Is When One Says What One Believes
• Truth Is When We Think that What We Think
• Truth Lies Just the Other Side of Anger
• Twelve
• Twenty
• Twenty2
• Twenty Is a Bud That's Finally Flowered
• Twenty-One
• Twenty-One2
• Twenty-Eight2
• Twenty-Eight3
• Twenty-Eight4
• Twenty-Eight5
• Twenty-Eight6
• Twenty-Eight's a Rose in Perfect Bloom
• Twenty-Five Has Come into Her Own
• Twenty-Five Remembers When the World
• Twenty-Five Years, and Still You Are in Love
• Twenty-Five Years on the Farm
• Twenty-Four
• Twenty-Nine
• Twenty-Nine2
• Twenty-Nine3
• Twenty-Nine4
• Twenty-Seven2
• Twenty-Seven3
• Twenty-Seven4
• Twenty-Seven's Not a Time for Scheming
• Twenty-Six3
• Twenty-Six4
• Twenty-Six Is Undeterred by Being
• Twenty-Six Reserves the Right to Change
• Twenty-Three
• Twenty-Two
• Twenty-Two2
• Twenty-Two Worries About Earth
• Twenty-Two Years Later They Were Dead
• Two
• Two2
• Two3
• Two4
• Two Years We've Been Together
• Tyler

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