Graduation's on a Mountaintop

June 24, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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A graduation poem about mixed hope and fear for the future:

Graduation's on a mountaintop.

Rarely does one get a better view.

All that is in front of one is new,

Dramatic vistas that don't seem to stop.

Underneath, perhaps, there is some fear

As more familiar landscapes fall away.

The price of moving on is just that gray

Intensity that grips as changes near.

One does, however, feel the moment's grace:

Now one should one’s sweet success embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

6/21: To My Sister on her Graduation

6/22: To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

6/23: Graduation Is a Time

6/24: Graduation’s on a Mountaintop