To the Graduate Whose Life I Share

May 15, 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 to a spouse.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To the graduate whose life I share,

On whose success I’ve laid the weight of mine:

The love and gratitude are always there;

However, on such special days they shine.

Enjoy your well-earned pomp and circumstance!

Graduations ought to be bejeweled,

Richly robed, as choreographed as dance,

A paean to a world by wisdom ruled.

Dearest soul, I find my joy in yours.

Underneath my pleasure is your smile.

As you shift your tassel*, my heart soars,

There is no inch of me that’s not applause,

Embracing you in spirit all the while.

*Graduates shift the tassel on their mortar boards, or special graduation hats, from right to left at the moment they are granted their degrees.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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