Graduations Are like Stepping Through

June 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem looking forward to bittersweet memories.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduations are like stepping through

A veil into another, larger room.

Behind, where we can never go again,

Are memories like a shipwreck full of gold.

Strange, the harmonies of pride and sadness,

The dawn and sunset of the new and old,

The bittersweet good-byes while looking forward

To things unseen beyond the ridge of time.

Numb with too much life we stagger through them,

Time passing in the ordinary way.

Relatives and friends all swarm around us,

Buzzing round the silence of the real.

And once the ceremonies and the parties

Are over, and the sweet days come and go,

All we've lost comes back to us as music

Of love departed, never to return.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad3.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

June 22: Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

June 23: Graduations Are like Stepping Through