Monday, June 19, 2017

Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 19, 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 about the bittersweet feelings a graduation can evoke.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here we have an end and a beginning,
A stop-time moment memory will frame,
Placed beside a christening or wedding,
Pieces of a whole one seeks in vain.
Yes, here we have a mind that looks both ways,
Glad to leave and sorry to be leaving,
Recognizing these were precious days,
A joyful liberation laced with grieving.
Does one ever listen to one’s music
Underneath one’s own incessant voice,
A quiet strain, though one ought never lose it,
That moves one to the fortune of one’s choice?
In every moment there’s a melody
One plays to mirror one’s reality,
Needing both to mourn and to rejoice.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/herew4.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

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