June 25, 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 graduation poem from someone who might not
live long enough to graduate.
I welcome comments on my poems at http://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.
Yours,
Nick Gordon
I want to make it to my graduation
Even though I haven't long to live.
I want that one last hard-earned celebration
To give me all the joy that it can give.
I want your pride around me like a song,
To walk within its passion and its beauty,
To feel its pleasure in me sweet and strong,
To be possessed of all of those who love me.
And then I want the lazy afterglow,
The long, slow chatter of the waning day,
The easy confidence of those who know
That something precious has been put away.
Death's a dawn in that its golden light
Reveals the loveliness long hid by night.
© by Nicholas Gordon
Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I
chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/iwant5.html.
For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html
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This week’s theme: Graduation.
June 20: Moving On from Middle School
June 22: Graduation Is a Time2
June 23: Graduation Isn’t Gradual
June 25: I Want to Make It to My Graduation
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