Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

June 21, 2019

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 about the wish to remember the moment of graduation:

Give me just this moment, please, forever.

Replicate it for me on demand.

As I flow unceasingly downriver,

Do not make me leave this day behind.

Understand my bittersweet confusion

As graduation crystallizes youth,

Tallying my treasures with precision,

Illuminating well a wistful truth.

Out of all my moments pluck this one,

Nor let me lose its grace when it is gone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

6/21: Give Me Just This Moment, Please, Forever

To Graduate Is like a Crow

June 20, 2019

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.

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

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

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given thatWe’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: GraduationsCan Be Bittersweet

6/20: To Graduate Is like a Crow

Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

June 19, 2019

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.

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

A bittersweet graduation poem about the pain and joy of graduation:

Graduations can be bittersweet,

Reminding us of all that's come and gone:

All our battles, whether lost or won,

Days of bliss, and days of near defeat.

Underneath our pride there is the sense,

Almost like a wound, of something past,

The beauty of a time that cannot last,

In which we shared the joys of innocence.

Open vistas lie before our eyes;

Now’s the time for hopes and for goodbyes.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

6/19: Graduations Can Be Bittersweet

Given that We're Happy to Be Here

June 18, 2019

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.

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

A graduation poem about the losses and gains involved in graduating:

Given that we're happy to be here,

Remember what we're gaining and we're losing.

Admittedly, the moment is confusing,

Demanding sad farewells and well-earned cheer.

Underneath the moment is the motion,

A silent passage out to open sea,

Taking place regardless what may be

In front of us, this ritual commotion.

Of what we are, but little will remain,

Nor will we ever come this way again.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

6/18: Given that We’re Happy to Be Here

Kindergarten Graduation

June 17, 2019

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.

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

A kindergarten graduation poem for parents about the importance of the ceremony:

Kindergarten graduation

Is the end of a beginning.

Now they start the numbered grades,

Dancing through the years of grace.

Ends require celebration,

Rituals of well-earned winning,

Giving kids the accolades

A dancer needs to keep the pace.

Rejoice, then, in the raw sensation,

The shyness bursting, rapture spinning.

Eventually, the glory fades,

Nor will it ever be replaced.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/17: Kindergarten Graduation

Happy Father's Day to My Dear Dad

June 16, 2019

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 this year is celebrated today, June 16.

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

A Father’s Day poem about how a father’s love shapes his child’s personality:

Happy Father's Day to my dear Dad!

As you have loved me, so have I loved you,

Pleased to tell you, now that words are due,

Pleased to have this chance to make you glad.

Your years of love and sacrifice have had

For me the force that you would wish them to,

A wind that takes me home to harbors new,

The inner voice in clothes familiar clad.

How might I be myself, except I see

Each gesture in the mirror of your grace,

Remembered as it was when long ago,

'Ere I knew why, I looked to you for love?

So am I of you inextricably,

Defined by trends not difficult to trace

As I grow into someone that I know,

Yet myself in ways that time will prove.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

6/10: A Little Boy Needs Daddy

6/11: The Pursed Lips That Pursue a Vagrant Thought

6/12: Fathers and Daughters Have a Romance

6/13: I Hate You, Dad, for What You Did

6/14: You Taught Me How to Love You

6/15: Your Children Ought Not Be Your Legacy

6/16: Happy Father’s Day to My Dear Dad

Your Children Ought Not Be Your Legacy

June 15, 2019

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 this year will be celebrated tomorrow, June 16.

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

A Father’s Day poem warning fathers not to burden their children with their own ambitions:

Your children ought not be your legacy,

For that’s a burden far too great to bear.

You’re on your own, as you were meant to be,

Proud parent of your treasured progeny

Without conditions, as is only fair.

Your children ought not be your legacy:

They must be themselves, as generously

You shine upon them, all the while aware

You’re on your own, as you were meant to be,

The sole contender of your destiny,

No matter how much love you choose to share.

Your children ought not be your legacy,

Inspired to fulfill your fantasy

And not their own, displaced beyond repair.

You’re on your own, as you were meant to be,

As all are in our longings ultimately,           

Though we remain in one another’s care.

Your children ought not be your legacy.

You’re on your own, as you were meant to be.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Father’s Day

6/10: A Little Boy Needs Daddy

6/11: The Pursed Lips That Pursue a Vagrant Thought

6/12: Fathers and Daughters Have a Romance

6/13: I Hate You, Dad, for What You Did

6/14: You Taught Me How to Love You

6/15: Your Children Ought Not Be Your Legacy