Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 15, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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A graduation poem about the need for lifelong learning:

Grateful for what we have learned,

Ready now to start

A life in which what we will earn

Depends upon the heart.

Underneath our new degrees

Are habits, knowledge, skill,

That are essential qualities

In anyone who will

One day look back upon this day

Needing learning still.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 13: Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 14: Happy Graduation

May 15: Grateful for What We Have Learned

Happy Graduation

May 14, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem about the transient nature of knowledge:

Happy graduation! For at last

A goal long sought has finally been achieved!

Praised be those who persevere, for they

Prepare the ground for gardens that will come,

Yielding fruit for many yet unborn!

Give back the gifts that else would bind you fast,

Returning to the wind what you've received.

A scholar's not a storehouse but a way,

Doing what will ever be undone,

Undoing what was once a brave new dawn.

All that you have labored for is past.

There is no longer knowledge long believed.

In truth, the truth is subject to decay,

Opening a world of wonders, one

Not cubbyholed or clipped, of mystery shorn.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 13: Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 14: Happy Graduation

Graduates Become the Cover Story

May 13, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem about how graduates affect the reputation of an institution:

Graduates become the cover story,

Representing all those still within;

As those who came before provide the glory

Determining how well one might begin.

Underneath the letters are the learners,

A class on whom the mantle now must fall,

Taken into custody as earners,

Each a new advertisement for all,

Serving as the institute writ small.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 13: Graduates Become the Cover Story

Congratulations on Your Graduation

May 12, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem about facing an uncertain future with the advantage of the knowledge gained in school:

Congratulations on your graduation,

Opening a door not easily reached!

Now go through it: on the other side

Great mountains become hills, and then just fields

Rolling eastward towards a rising sun.

All now is success and celebration,

The music of deeds done and barriers breached.

Underneath, uncertainties still glide

Lean and hungry as the sweet day yields,

And golden moments through your fingers run.

The rock on which you stand is your creation,

Illustrating what your teachers preached

Of learning and the provenance of pride.

Nor need you fear the wind, as knowledge shields

Such as earn it from what storms may come.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 12: Congratulations on Your Graduation

Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

May 11, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation since many colleges and universities have their graduations in May.

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

A graduation poem about the continuing value of a liberal education:

Alma maters nourish more than mind:

Light within illuminates the whole,

Making one of multitudes combined,

Allowing each the passion of its soul.

Maybe we'll forget much that we've learned

As we narrow to a single road.

The powers we were given we have earned,

Ever the way blessings are bestowed,

Riches not retained until returned.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

May 11: Alma Maters Nourish More than Mind

Happiness, like Most Things, Comes from Mothers

May 10, 2020

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Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 10.

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

A Mother’s Day poem about how a mother’s love is the basis for all other love:

Happiness, like most things, comes from mothers.

An amniotic universe is rare.

Paradises aren't found with others,

Perhaps because we must breathe our own air.

Yet even after paradise, we find

Mothers are a bath of warm affection.

Only mothers' love is truly blind

To guarantee all errant souls protection.

However we find love, it can be only

Evanescences of memories

Retained from when we never could be lonely,

'Ere we left our mother's outsized knees.

So good it is to have that happiness

Designed to grace each subsequent caress,

All future love and joy to underlie,

Yearning backwards towards a mother's sigh.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/4: Mothers Are the Archetypes of Love

5/5: I Know I’m No Replacement for a Child

5/6: Although a Daughter, I Write This as a Mother

5/7: Daughters-in-Law Are Our Grandchildren’s Mothers

5/8: From the Distance of Our Separation

5/9: Happy First Mother’s Day

5/10: Happiness, like Most Things, Comes from Mothers

Happy First Mother's Day

May 9, 2020

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 10.

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

A Happy 1^st Mother’s Day poem:

Happy first Mother's Day!

A joint venture of

Puberty, pregnancy,

Poop, pee, and love!

Yet speaking of mothers,

Maybe you've heard

Of how much sheer wonder

There is in a word:

Home to each pilgrim,

Enduring embrace,

Roost for each rambler

'Twixt grievance and grace;

Salve for each wound,

Dappling despair,

A love one must leave

Yet always is there.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/4: Mothers Are the Archetypes of Love

5/5: I Know I’m No Replacement for a Child

5/6: Although a Daughter, I Write This as a Mother

5/7: Daughters-in-Law Are Our Grandchildren’s Mothers

5/8: From the Distance of Our Separation

5/9: Happy First Mother’s Day