Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

June 19, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since now is the time many schools in the U.S. are having their graduations, the theme for this week is graduation.

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A bittersweet graduation poem about the pain and joy of graduation:

Graduations can be bittersweet,

Reminding us of all that's come and gone:

All our battles, whether lost or won,

Days of bliss, and days of near defeat.

Underneath our pride there is the sense,

Almost like a wound, of something past,

The beauty of a time that cannot last,

In which we shared the joys of innocence.

Open vistas lie before our eyes;

Now’s the time for hopes and for goodbyes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet