Graduations Sometimes Can Be Sad

June 23, 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 graduation poem about sadness and loss:

Graduations sometimes can be sad,

Removing from our world a world of friends,

An instant that, in golden garments clad,

Divides our bright beginnings from our ends.

Underneath our confidence and pride

A sense of loss like music haunts the heart,

Telling us that what we are inside

Is presently a place we must depart.

Our years have yielded paradise and pain,

Nor will we ever taste such fruit again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

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

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

6/21: Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

6/22: Josh2

6/23: Graduations Sometimes Can Be Sad