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