Graduation Is a Time2

June 22, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is a humorous graduation poem about going just a bit insane.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduation is a time

When our thoughts turn naturally

To vandalism, sex, and crime,

Now that we at last are free.

Our teachers think we're well prepared

To make decisions on our own;

But now, perhaps, they're running scared

As they listen to this poem.

Don't worry, folks, we aren't crazy,

Though sometimes we look that way;

Just annoyed, bored, and lazy

As we make it through the day.

So just like birds out of a cage

Or slaves set free from toil and pain,

We aim to try to act our age

And be for now a bit insane.

For life too soon will close its doors,

And then as we grow old in years

We'll teach our own kids to be bores,

But hopefully they'll stuff their ears

And do as we did, not as we do,

Facing life a tad askew.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/grad5.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.

June 20: Moving On from Middle School

June 21: Friends in High School Are Forever Young

June 22: Graduation Is a Time2