Thursday, June 20, 2019

To Graduate Is like a Crow


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 for children comparing graduation to a number of animals and situations:

To graduate is like a crow
Flying up into a tree.
Once he gets there he can see
The younger children down below.

To graduate is like a frog
Hopping up from stair to stair.
He doesn't know until he's there
How high he is above the bog.

To graduate is as though you
Were climbing up a rocky hill.
Up and up you go until
You’re at the top and see the view.

Up and up and up we go
From grade to grade, from hop to hop.
Why do we hop all the way to the top?
When we get there, we will know.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation
6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

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