Graduation's Reason to Rejoice

May 18, 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 for a close friend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduation's reason to rejoice,

Realizing at last a long-sought end.

And so yours gives occasion to my voice,

Delighting in the gift of being friends.

Underneath your pleasure is my pride,

As yours remains the rock on which I stand.

The window through which I can see inside

Is hung upon the mirror in your hand.

One cannot be one without the other,

Nor can we be ourselves without another.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad8.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