Jessica Is Now Sixteen

Subscribe to this site on Substack

Subscribe to this site on YouTube

Subscribe to this site on Medium

Follow this site on Facebook

Follow this site on Instagram

Hear me read
the poem as
an MP3 file.

Watch me read
the poem as
a YouTube video.

Audio and Video Music:
English Country Garden.
By Aaron Kenny.
Music free to use
at YouTube.

Alpha List

Name Poems

About This
Site

Poems for
Free

Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon

Jessica is now sixteen:
Exceptionally sweet.
Shining through her ready smile
Sunshine brightens us awhile,
Intense but not complete.
Choices gather, hard and lean,
Along her dappled street.

Copyright by Nicholas Gordon. Free for personal or non-commercial use.

Audio and Video Music: English Country Garden.
By Aaron Kenny. Music free to use at YouTube.

[about this site] [poems for free] [poem of the week]
[site policy] [about me] [links]