May 17, 2017
Dear Subscriber:
Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of
view. Since this is a week when many colleges and universities have their
graduation ceremonies, the theme for this week is graduation.
Today’s poem is a graduation poem about how what one learns
is more important than the degree.
I welcome comments on my poems at
https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
Graduation ought not be an end,
Replacing what within we might achieve.
After all, the good that we intend
Does much to serve the good that we receive.
Underneath the mask of a degree
A person must perform with just the skill,
The knowledge and the art that he or she
Internalized through pluck, hard work, and will.
On what we are will rest what we become,
Nor do we have much else to draw upon.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad7.html.
For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html
.
This week’s theme: Graduation
May 16: Graduation Shouldn’t Be Too Easy
May 17: Graduation Ought Not Be an End
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