Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

June 22, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation and goodbye poem to a friend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Goodbye, dear friend and graduate!

Our golden time is over now,

Our time of nothing more than time,

Days of simply being friends.

But I will always treasure how

Your love for me inspired mine,

Each sharing hopes and dreams and ends.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/goodb2.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

June 22: Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

Graduating Gradually

June 21, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about graduating from elementary school to middle school and then to high school.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduating gradually,

Rising school by school,

As I become what I will be,

Deliberately uncool.

Understanding more and more,

As I continue on,

The calling I’m intended for,

In which I’ll find my home.

Out of learning comes the dream

None but learning can redeem.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad14.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood

June 20, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about graduation as the border of adulthood.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Goodbye, adolescence! Hello, adulthood!

Rest assured, I’m on my merry way!

A boy is crossing over into manhood,

Destined to arrive this very day!

Unveil the future, O Ye Gods of Glory,

And fill me in on what my prospects are!

Take me to the meaning of my story,

In which I hope to be a brilliant star!

One chance is all I get. It’s starting now.

Now let me be all will and fate allow.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/goodb6.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 19, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about the bittersweet feelings a graduation can evoke.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here we have an end and a beginning,

A stop-time moment memory will frame,

Placed beside a christening or wedding,

Pieces of a whole one seeks in vain.

Yes, here we have a mind that looks both ways,

Glad to leave and sorry to be leaving,

Recognizing these were precious days,

A joyful liberation laced with grieving.

Does one ever listen to one’s music

Underneath one’s own incessant voice,

A quiet strain, though one ought never lose it,

That moves one to the fortune of one’s choice?

In every moment there’s a melody

One plays to mirror one’s reality,

Needing both to mourn and to rejoice.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

For You the Symphony Will Never End

June 18, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which is celebrated today, June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem about the astounding richness of the fabric created by one’s becoming a father.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For you the symphony will never end,

A trillion voices on a single loom,

Tapestry so rich one can't conceive

How any will could such a wonder weave,

Even as the moments bud and bloom,

Revelations words cannot retrieve,

Senses that no sense can comprehend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/foryo6.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 17: Hold On to What You Know – That You’re in Love

June 18: For You the Symphony Will Never End

Hold On to What You Have -- That You're in Love

June 17, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for a father dealing with the difficulties of fatherhood.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Hold on to what you know – that you’re in love,

And will be for life, a sentence that’s a joy,

Pleased to have one thing you’re certain of,

Pleased to have one thing time can’t destroy.

Yes, of course, all love must ebb and flow.

Feeling is liquid, moved by winds and tides,

Above, all waves and ripples, while below

The simple, silent, unchanged truth abides.

Have faith in that sweet tie that binds you fast,

Embracing you with elemental need.

Regardless of reverses, it will last,

‘Mid grief and grace the gift of love-sown seed.

So may you cherish well what life has given,

Desiring what you have, though you have striven

Against your own unyielding gods within,

Yearning for a calmer, gentler wind.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/holdon.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 17: Hold On to What You Know – That You’re in Love

Father's Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 16, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Father’s Day, which falls on June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem for an uncle.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Father's Day is not meant just for fathers.

An uncle, too, can claim his just reward.

The child has a need for loving men,

However they may be akin, and when

Each grows into adulthood, has a word

Required to describe a model other,

Singing just the name to hear the chord.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/fath10.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers