Tuesday, June 23, 2020

Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

June 23, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation.

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A graduation poem about the ambivalent feelings that come with graduation day:

Glad to graduate and sad to leave.
Ready to go, reluctant to depart.
Anxious to learn what more we can achieve.
Divided down the center of the heart.
Underneath our premature nostalgia,
Avidly we dream of things to come.
The moment is a multilayered mixture
In which each part is greater than the sum.
Our longing is the source of memory.
Nor will we soon forget when we were we.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation
June 23: Glad to Graduate and Sad to Leave

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