Make Your Mark upon the World

May 4, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A graduation poem in which the institution speaks to its graduates of their intertwined fates:

Make your mark upon the world!

The marker comes from here.

March on life with flags unfurled!

Your provenance is clear.

You are our product, carrying

The sanction of our seal.

We are your foundry, marrying

Our knowledge to your zeal.

What you make of it is yours,

But it is also ours.

For what you do beyond our doors

Documents our powers.

Do it well, for both of us!

Our fates are intertwined.

Make your mark, for only thus

Might we sweet favor find.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

5/4: Make Your Mark upon the World

Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

May 3, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A thank-you and graduation poem thanking teachers for the gift of their knowledge:

Thank you for being where all these years went.

Happiness comes from the people we are,

And so much of what we are now comes from here,

Nearby our hearts still, our minds still ajar.

Knowledge is wealth that can never be spent.

Years from this day, as we search for some star,

Over us clouds, our harried heads bent,

Unthinking, some long-ago wind will skies clear.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

5/3: Thank You for Being Where All These Years Went

The Parents of a Graduate

May 2, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A thank-you poem from the graduate to his or her parents for their love:

The parents of a graduate

Have much they should be proud of.

All ought to congratulate

Not our work, but their love.

Know that you have made me, me;

You shape my efforts still.

Out of your sweet certainty

Unaltered came my will.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

5/2: The Parents of a Graduate

The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

May 1, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A graduation poem about the significance of the learning that led the degree:

The pride I feel is nothing like the pride

Of one who's made it through the thousand gates

That stand between one's hopes and one's degree.

How much have you learned? And what inside

Equals your diploma, which equates

Grades and credits with reality?

Remember: Your achievement is not only

A tribute to the things that you have done,

Determined as you have been to succeed.

Underneath the sign is still the story,

A tale of what through learning you've become,

The graduate to those who records read,

Even as you sail to shores unknown.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

5/1: The Pride I Feel Is Nothing like the Pride

The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

April 30, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A graduation poem about the challenges that await:

The years of getting ready are now over.

On you now lies the burden of your life.

The teachers that await you will be tougher,

Having need to use you for their wealth.

Even so, you stand upon tall shoulders,

Granted the sweet chance to be prepared,

Ready to assume the work of others,

Anxious for the wind that bears your word.

Do well, my dear one! All my love goes with you

Underneath the rhythm of your day,

An organ tone that will not wane or waver

Though you run through the gates that mark your way,

Exultant in your work as in your play.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

4/30: The Years of Getting Ready Are Now Over

These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

April 29, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities have their graduation ceremonies in early May, the theme for this week is College Graduation.

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

A thank-you poem from a graduate to his or her family:

These past few years have not been easy for me.

How I made it through them, I can't say.

All your love has helped me reach this day.

Now I cast my thanks upon your sea,

Knowing of the love that's there for me,

Yearning all these years for what’s now mine.

Only in that love can I define,

Unloosing all my fears, my self-to-be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: College Graduation

4/29: These Past Few Years Have Not Been Easy for Me

Zion National Park

April 28, 2019

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is the environment, in honor of Earth Day, which is celebrated on April 22, and Arbor Day, which is celebrated on April 26.

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

A poem about the beauty of Zion National Park:

Zion Canyon is the work of water

In concert with the winds that shape the heart.

One sees a grandeur equal to one's wonder;

Nor can one be, but of such grace a part.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: The Environment

4/22: And These Are the Islands

4/23: Global Warning

4/24: Mountains Mark the Boundaries of Our Dreams

4/25: Thirty-Two Guards Well a Sacred Place

4/26: Twenty-Five Remembers When the World

4/27: Bryce Canyon National Park

4/28: Zion National Park