Poem of the Week

May 12: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 13: There Is No Future Good Enough

May 14: Give Me My Degree and Let Me Go

Friday, May 13, 2016

There Is No Future Good Enough

May 13, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is about college as an idealistic time before one must make compromises with life.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

There is no future good enough

For what we hope to be,

Nor world with windows wide enough

For what we hope to see.

Yet when we turn to compromise

The dreams with which we wake,

We'll glimpse behind a memory

Which we cannot forsake.

How beautiful this time of youth

That is so quickly gone!

We came to learn together, and

In moments we are done.

How long we will remember this

Brief time when life would wait

Upon the true perception that

Comes always far too late.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/there5.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.

May 12: Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 13: There Is No Future Good Enough

Thursday, May 12, 2016

Grateful for What We Have Learned

May 12, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is about the need for lifelong learning.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

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.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/grate2.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.

May 12: Grateful for What We Have Learned

Wednesday, May 11, 2016

To the Graduate Who Makes Me Smile

May 11, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is for a graduate from a female friend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

To the graduate who makes me smile

Or melt away whenever he comes near,

The handsome one, with lovely eyes and hair,

Hearts leaning toward his sunlight all the while:

Even I, who am your friend, lean toward you,

Gripped with pride in all that you have done,

Relishing the compliments you've won,

Alight with all the ways I might reward you.

Draw your own sweet dreams. I wish you well

Upon your graduation and beyond.

And if I could, I'd wave my magic wand

That happiness for you I might compel,

Even as I think what time might tell.

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

This week’s theme: Graduation.

Tuesday, May 10, 2016

I Would Be Proud of You, Could I Attend

May 10, 2016

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many colleges and universities hold their graduation ceremonies this week, this week’s theme is graduation.

Today’s poem is for a graduate from a deceased parent.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

I would be proud of you, could I attend,

Would I now know the things I'll never know,

Could I have watched you come to comprehend

The wonder of the world in which you grow.

Do not think I did not think of you,

Imagining the beauty of this day,

For I was at your graduation, too,

Though long ago, and in a different way.

Life can be full, no matter short or long,

As long as love can fill it with its grace.

And I have felt such pride, and love so strong,

That you will live your life in my embrace.

So of the pride today I claim my share:

Though I am not, I know that I am there.

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at http://www.poemsforfree.com/iwoul3.html. For more graduation poems, go to http://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation.