Poem of the Week

7/12: Lisa

7/13: The Sunlight Is as Passionate as Flowers

7/14: Happy Ninth

7/15: Suscilia

Saturday, July 14, 2018

Happy Ninth

July 14, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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An anniversary poem comparing a couple’s love to a summer garden:

Happy ninth! A time that gathers time

And hands it to you in a bright bouquet.

Perhaps not all is roses, but the flowers,

Plucked from paradise, portray all love,

Yearning for the beauty it reveals.

Nor ought you wonder, for what time conceals

In time will bloom, and scatter seed, and prove

No little portion of your future powers,

The garden that no time can take away,

Herbs and blossoms, mint and eglantine.

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

7/12: Lisa

7/13: The Sunlight Is as Passionate as Flowers

7/14: Happy Ninth

Thursday, July 12, 2018

The Sunlight Is as Passionate as Flowers

July 13, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A birthday poem comparing the loveliness of the birthday to the beauty of a summer day:

The sunlight is as passionate as flowers

Bordering the sidewalk of a song.

Clouds shape its golden apertures for hours,

Shifting with each breeze that comes along.

The day becomes a mustard-colored sunbeam

Falling through the window of your smile.

Mystical sensations, headed downstream,

Sit upon your windowsill awhile.

How beautifully the choir of the mountains

Sings to its rapt audience of blue!

As dancing down a corridor of fountains,

We toss in coins and make this wish for you:

Long may you love the loveliness of Earth!

And celebrate with joy your day of birth.

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

7/12: Lisa

7/13: The Sunlight Is as Passionate as Flowers

Wednesday, July 11, 2018

Lisa

July 12, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A name poem comparing a beautiful woman to a bowl of summer fruit:

Lisa is a sunlit bowl of fruit,

Indian-summer sweet, like juice just pressed:

Still-life apples, grapes in dew drops dressed,

And pregnant pears plucked mellowing and mute.

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

7/12: Lisa

Tuesday, July 10, 2018

To Say You Are My World Means

July 11, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A love poem comparing the beauty of love to that of a late summer evening:

To say you are my world means:

That when I look at the sky

I see your face,

And when I pause alone at the window

I feel your hands on my back.

It means:

That the beauty of a garden

Is half in the words I think to you;

That winter is my fear of losing you,

And that spring is the hope I never will.

It means:

That I have taken the risk of wrapping my life

So completely around yours

That the beauty of a late summer evening is

Inseparable from the beauty of our love.

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

Thirty-Five3

July 10, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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A number poem comparing a 35-year-old’s yearning for the past to a summer wind:

Thirty-five has reason to remember

How lovely was the life now left behind.

Indeed, though young, no longer in one's youth,

Recalling days awash in golden ruth,

There is much beauty in this summer wind,

Yearning far more simply than September.

For all, time is like music on the mind,

Insidiously bringing one to truth,

Vivid in the vastness of its wonder

Even as one is oneself the singer.

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

7/10: Thirty-Five3

Sunday, July 8, 2018

Thirty-Two4

July 9, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is summer: its storms, its gentle winds, its fruit, its flowers.

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A number poem comparing a 32-year-old to a summer storm:

Thirty-two is like a summer storm

Howling in the heat of windless days:

Impassioned in pursuit of promised treasure,

Raging through fields planted deep with pleasure,

The flood of life unleashed on well-worn ways.

Yet, of course, such tempests are the norm.

There is for now but little listless leisure

When passion is itself of passions shorn,

One pent-up dream in one’s ambitious gaze.

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This week’s theme: Summer

7/9: Thirty-Two4

Saturday, July 7, 2018

Principles of Political Economy

July 8, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

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A set of proverbs on the relationship between politics and economics:

Principles of Political Economy

1. Political and economic activity are motivated primarily by perceived self-interest.

2. Immediate self-interest is more powerful than deferred self-interest unless one believes that the benefits of deferred self-interest will be equitably distributed.

3. Therefore just laws, strictly and equitably applied by a legitimate authority, are required if deferred self-interest is generally to prevail.

4. Productive activity in pursuit of deferred self-interest is the source of wealth.

5. The following conditions stimulate such productive activity: just laws equitably applied; individual rights and freedoms; security of property and person; political and economic stability; education; equitable distribution of opportunity; equitable distribution of wealth; developed infrastructure for production, transportation, and communication; available credit; a stable currency.

6. Neither a pure market economy nor a State-controlled economy is conducive to the development and maintenance of these conditions.

7. The proper balance of State intervention and market control is measured economically but determined politically.

8. While temporary restraints on trade may be beneficial, in general the freer the movement of goods, services, and investment, the greater the stimulation of productive activity, and therefore the greater the wealth.

9. The productive activity of each contributes to the wealth of all. This is as true of nations within the world economy as it is of individuals within a national economy.

10. The globalization of political and economic activity will increase global wealth only to the extent that the conditions listed in (5) above prevail globally.

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This week’s theme: Politics

7/7: The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane

7/6: Hubris Is a Quality of People

7/8: Principles of Political Economy

Friday, July 6, 2018

The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane

July 7, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A poem about the political causes of cancer:

The cancer that killed you was part of you gone quite insane:

The good run amok; death from life bursting awry,

Like a poor paranoid on a bell tower sniping away,

Killing the order that gives all the colony life.

Nature, of course, has madness built into its music,

Disturbing its peace with the agony all artists crave.

Perhaps that's what killed you: the one-in-so-many malfunctions

That chaos requires to shatter the oneness of light.

But chaos is aided in our time by greed in abundance:

Greed like a cancer destroying our colony Earth;

Greed that we eat, drink, and breathe, in our dreams, in our language;

Greed in the nuclei of our dwindling faiths.

What killed you, my loved one, is blended in recycled plastic

Spewing its toxins in micrograms into the sky.

Your life was a goat on the altar of modern convenience,

Bearing the sins of us all towards that merciless god.

We live in a world whose rulers are partners with death;

For whom cancer must be a number that balances out.

You were just perhaps the unlucky percent to be traded

For progress towards some CEO's end-of-year bottom line.

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This week’s theme: Politics

7/7: The Cancer That Killed You Was Part of You Gone Quite Insane

7/6: Hubris Is a Quality of People

Thursday, July 5, 2018

Hubris Is a Quality of People

July 6, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A political poem warning of rulers afflicted by hubris, or excessive pride:

Hubris is a quality of people

Under the influence of being right.

Beware of power wielded in a cause

Restrained by nothing more than higher laws,

Intent on doing good through measured might.

So do righteous rulers' reigns turn lethal.

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This week’s theme: Politics

7/6: Hubris Is a Quality of People

Wednesday, July 4, 2018

Politics Brings Out the Worst in Us

July 5, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which was celebrated yesterday, July 4^th.

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A political poem about fear and anger stoked for political purposes:

Politics brings out the worst in us.

One is more vile the more there is at stake.

Leveraging a little animus,

It turns mere opposition into hate.

The lava bubbling underneath each heart,

Inhibited by guilt or love or fear,

Comes bursting forth, by scribes with subtle art

Stoked vigorously as new elections near.

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This week’s theme: Politics

Tuesday, July 3, 2018

Then, There Was No Right to Eat

July 4, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated today, July 4^th.

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An Independence Day poem about applying Constitutional principles to modern realities:

Then, there was no right to eat, nor was health

A right, nor freedom for a slave. Native

Peoples were simply dispossessed, and wealth

Accrued to men only. The fierce and furtive

Cries for love, gay or straight, were smothered.

Non-human animals had no rights, nor children

Left to drunken fathers or brutal mothers.

Oh, yes, that government governed least, but no one

Could foresee the brood of rights sprung

From words that rang out across the western world

That summer day, rights now nearly won,

That long lay fearful in predawn silence curled.

The founders were wise, but to be true to them,

We must apply their words to now, not then.

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This week’s theme: Politics

Monday, July 2, 2018

Now, at Last, the Time of Reckoning

July 3, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which will be celebrated tomorrow, July 4^th.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

A political poem about the next recession or depression:

Now, at last, the time of reckoning.

It had to come. You knew that, didn't you?

After all, nothing can't be something

Even when its stock is on the rise.

Now the panic after the delusion,

The great big yawning pit within the heart.

One sees disaster happening and wonders,

Regrets, resolves, recriminates, sits tight.

O Lord, what will happen now? The hunger,

People on the streets and on the move.

The last depression blossomed into Hitler.

What flowers will this rain of terror bring?

One thing now we know for sure -- again:

That greed unfettered is a luxury car

Without a steering wheel, a mighty engine

That moves us forward into death and pain.

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This week’s theme: Politics

Sunday, July 1, 2018

In Politics Corruption Is the Norm

July 2, 2018

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is politics in honor of Independence Day (USA), which is celebrated on July 4^th.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com .

An Independence Day poem about the ubiquity of corruption in government:

In politics corruption is the norm,

Nor can one wield much power without its aid.

Democracy demands that minds be swayed,

Eviscerating efforts at reform.

Perhaps in tyrannies corruption's worse,

Existing without recourse or restraint.

Not even when the ruler is a saint,

Devout and good, can one stamp out this curse.

Each country has some white knights still unstained,

Nor can idealists long remain in power.

Corruption simply waits until their hour

Erodes once their energy has waned.

Depending on its character and press,

A nation might be more corrupt or less,

Yet underneath the law the blight remains.

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This week’s theme: Politics

Saturday, June 30, 2018

The Bells Ring Not for Just These Two

July 1, 2018

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

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A wedding poem about how wedding bells ring for everyone:

The bells ring not for just these two

Who will be joined in love today.

They also ring for me and you.

And not just for the families who

Now celebrate, as well they may.

The bells ring not for just these, too.

And not just those who know or knew

These families well, who came their way.

They also ring for me and you.

And not just those who came to view

The bride, the groom, the whole array.

The bells ring not for just these, too.

And not just those whose love is true,

Or those who would their doubts allay.

They also ring for me and you.

For all are joined in love, and do

Rejoice to hear the sweet bells play!

The bells ring not for just these two.

They also ring for me and you.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

6/29: A Set of Wedding Vows

6/30: I Do Not See You Often with My Eyes

7/1: The Bells Ring Not for Just These Two

Friday, June 29, 2018

I Do Not See You Often with My Eyes

June 30, 2018

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

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A wedding poem from a friend from far away:

I do not see you often with my eyes,

But often you are with me in my heart.

We rarely speak, but there are deeper ties

That keep us close while we must be apart.

Friendships don't depend on sights and sounds,

But on the mysteries of need and grace.

You're with me always, unrestrained by bounds,

In some sweet field more permanent than place.

And so your marriage is a widespread glory,

Shining on a world of more than two.

All the characters in your life story

Share the happiness that's come to you.

No love but must with all love intertwine:

The joy between you two is also mine.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

6/29: A Set of Wedding Vows

6/30: I Do Not See You Often with My Eyes

Wedding Vows2

June 29, 2018

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

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A set of wedding vows:

BRIDE: I vow to love you all my life,

In sickness and in health,

And share your journey through this world

In either want or wealth.

I vow to give myself to you,

To trust you with my life,

To be your source of happiness

As lover and as wife.

GROOM: I vow to give you all my love,

To be your lasting friend,

To care for you and comfort you

Till time and trouble end.

I vow to share your happiness

And sorrow, joy and tears,

And be for you the one true thing

That lasts through all your years.

BOTH: These vows we make not knowing what

Good times or ill may come,

But knowing well what we both want:

A joyful, loving home.

These vows we make of our free will

Before you all, that we

Might know the grace that comes to those

Who would long loving be.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

6/29: A Set of Wedding Vows

Wednesday, June 27, 2018

Gifts Are Not So Simply for the Taking

June 28, 2018

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

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A wedding poem about the rewards and complications of gifts of love:

Gifts are not so simply for the taking.

A gift of love comes freighted with a soul.

Blessed are those who take the offer whole,

Rewarded with a life well worth embracing.

Intimacy's a gift requiring reshaping

Each to play a symbiotic role,

Life exchanging, changing lead to gold,

A mystic one of two now in the making.

Now one knows the other is for certain,

Dependent without fears, without regrets;

Knows that someone sees one as a gift;

Embraces the wizard hid behind the curtain;

Needs to be needed, for what one gives one gets;

Needs to need, for needless one might drift

Alone as passion rises and then sets.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

Tuesday, June 26, 2018

I Never Thought I Ever Would Get Married

June 27, 2018

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

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A wedding poem about freely choosing to constrain oneself through marriage:

I never thought I ever would get married.

I wanted no restraint upon my will.

But like the wind I wanted to be carried

Wherever wish might take me, yearning still.

And then I fell in love with you, and found

A rock upon which I might build a home,

A place both for and to which I was bound,

So bountiful I had no need to roam.

Freedom cannot be except by choosing,

And choice, if choice it be, of need constrains.

And joy, once had, becomes, for fear of losing,

A horse one rides with firm grip on the reins.

Thus my choice to love you as your wife

Is freely made, yet made for all my life.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

Monday, June 25, 2018

We Met as Merely Words upon a Screen

June 26, 2018

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

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A wedding poem for a couple who met through email:

We met as merely words upon a screen,

Disembodied souls who found a mate

Through mind alone, and unsuspected yearning.

We fell in love the best way, sight unseen,

Pure hunger neither feast nor flesh could sate,

Two hidden flames fair fed by phrases burning.

Most find their way by sight into the heart,

Loving first what must most quickly change

And only then what will the years endure.

We did the opposite, though not by art,

Taking steps that we did not arrange

Along a path both passionate and sure.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

Sunday, June 24, 2018

A Vow Is Both a Promise and a Sign

June 25, 2018

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

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A wedding poem that contains a wedding vow:

A vow is both a promise and a sign

That I am sure enough that this is true

To say it publicly, not just to you,

But to all those whose lives we here combine.

And so I vow to love you all my life,

To give you joy, for that is joy to me,

To be for you what I would have you be:

Each a home for each as man and wife.

I vow to give myself to that one self

Engendered by our mystical embrace,

And to nurture it through love and will.

For only thus we cross the inner gulf

That lies between our consciousness and grace,

Blessed by love, that makes good of all ill.

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This week’s theme: Weddings

Saturday, June 23, 2018

Graduation's on a Mountaintop

June 24, 2018

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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.

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This week’s theme: 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

Friday, June 22, 2018

Graduation Is a Time

June 23, 2018

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A graduation poem from parents to their child:

Graduation is a time

For feeling very proud,

For thinking lots of lovely thoughts

And saying them out loud.

It's a time for feeling love

About to overflow,

And just before it leaps its banks,

To let the loved one know.

And so we’re very proud of you

For being who you are,

For making something of yourself,

For making it this far.

We’re proud because we are a part

Of everything you do.

This time's the time to say how much

Love we have for you.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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

6/23: Graduation Is a Time

To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

June 22, 2018

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A graduation and thank-you poem to a teacher:

To give as you have given takes a love

Hallowed by a special kind of grace.

After all, the lives we will embrace,

Now are shaped by those that our hearts move.

Kids need the kind of leader you have been.

Your efforts don't come close to the real sum:

On your life we build what we become,

Undertaking only what we've seen.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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

Wednesday, June 20, 2018

To My Sister on Her Graduation

June 21, 2018

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A graduation poem from a younger sister or brother to an older sister:

To my sister on her graduation:

Old memories are a movie starring you.

Much of me is shaped by our relation,

Years and years of watching what you do.

So like two trees alone upon a meadow,

Interplaying with the rain and sun,

Shaped by the turning earth through light and shadow,

The growth of two becomes the growth of one.

Even as you enter your new life,

Remember how we shared the morning light.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

Tuesday, June 19, 2018

Hail to the Graduate

June 20, 2018

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A graduation poem from sister to brother:

Hail to the graduate!

Looking great and feeling fit!

Oh, so proud and full of it!

This day belongs to you.

You've been a lovely friend and brother.

In fact, I wouldn't have another.

In fact, I can't -- just ask our mother.

But better? There are few.

So go along and have some fun,

Learn some new things on the run,

And should you meet some special one,

Keep me in your heart, too.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

Monday, June 18, 2018

Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

June 19, 2018

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A graduation poem anticipating memories:

Free at last! Our childhood is over!

Now we can look back with tearful eyes

And see ourselves through sentimental lies,

As though these were for us the best years ever.

Perhaps they were, but we won't know till later,

When we have seen the landscapes of our lives,

And known the love of husbands or of wives,

And tasted of our fortunes, sweet or bitter.

For now, we're simply happy to move on

Yet sad for all that we must leave behind,

Celebrating as we say farewell.

Days and years flow swiftly through the mind,

Lingering long after they are gone

As tales we cannot help but oft retell.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

Sunday, June 17, 2018

Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

June 18, 2018

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A congratulatory graduation poem from faculty to students:

Each of us must climb our separate mountain

To reach at last our own extended view.

We can be no more than what we are,

Yet that is quite enough for us to do.

The world is far too great for comprehension,

And so we only know what we can know.

But given the abilities we're given,

That's still a long and weary way to go.

Yet on the way, how beautiful the moments!

How good it feels to have some skill or art!

How wonderful to pause in awestruck wonder

At what must fill the unsuspecting heart!

And so we're proud of each of you today

For all you've learned, and all you've tried to learn.

Knowledge brings the deepest satisfaction,

Not least because it's something that you earn.

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This week’s theme: Graduation