Poem of the Week

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

6/22: Josh2

6/23: Graduations Sometimes Can Be Sad

Saturday, June 22, 2019

Josh2

June 22, 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 name and graduation poem for a classmate who died years before he would have graduated:

Josh would have graduated with our class,

One of us had he not long since died.

So shall he be, though years and lifetimes pass,

Here in his place, with us by his side.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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

6/22: Josh2

Friday, June 21, 2019

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.

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

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.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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

Thursday, June 20, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

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

6/19: GraduationsCan Be Bittersweet

Tuesday, June 18, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Graduation

Monday, June 17, 2019

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.

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This week’s theme: Graduation