We Are Upward Bound

May 20, 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 from the graduates to their teachers.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

We are upward bound, the world's bright future,

The generation that will not betray

Its noblest dreams, the things that we've been taught here,

The ways of peace and brotherhood and love.

So as we make this final farewell gesture

And take our leave on graduation day,

Let us thank the teachers that we've found here,

Who must each day be what they hope to prove.

What a gift you've given us -- yourselves!

The best in you, that you might be a sign

To us of what the best in us can be:

Loving, smart, hardworking, fair, and kind.

Your temperament's the well-wrought text that tells

Us more than any lesson you assign.

We become the people that we see

And treasure long the good we leave behind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/weareu.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

May 15: To the Graduate Whose Life I Share

May 16: Graduation Shouldn’t Be Too Easy

May 17: Graduation Ought Not Be an End

May 18: Graduation’s Reason to Rejoice

May 19: Sometimes a Sacrifice or Two Comes Easy

May 20: We Are Upward Bound