Middle School Is a Time of Yearning

June 24, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about graduating from middle school.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Middle school is a time of yearning

For what's ahead and what is left behind:

Neither child nor adult, but burning

Unrestrained with love and fear combined.

Now that we must leave, we have the pleasure

Of moving one step nearer who we are,

Knowing that we lose the equal treasure,

Bit by bit, of leaving dreams ajar.

How lucky we have been this awkward moment,

Shifting from the shade into the sun,

To have this school as our communal parent,

Guiding us as well as you have done!

More than skills improved or knowledge gained

Are intellects inspired and gifts unchained.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

June 22: Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

June 23: Graduations Are like Stepping Through

June 24: Middle School Is a Time of Yearning

Graduations Are like Stepping Through

June 23, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem looking forward to bittersweet memories.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduations are like stepping through

A veil into another, larger room.

Behind, where we can never go again,

Are memories like a shipwreck full of gold.

Strange, the harmonies of pride and sadness,

The dawn and sunset of the new and old,

The bittersweet good-byes while looking forward

To things unseen beyond the ridge of time.

Numb with too much life we stagger through them,

Time passing in the ordinary way.

Relatives and friends all swarm around us,

Buzzing round the silence of the real.

And once the ceremonies and the parties

Are over, and the sweet days come and go,

All we've lost comes back to us as music

Of love departed, never to return.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad3.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

June 22: Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

June 23: Graduations Are like Stepping Through

Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

June 22, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation and goodbye poem to a friend.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Goodbye, dear friend and graduate!

Our golden time is over now,

Our time of nothing more than time,

Days of simply being friends.

But I will always treasure how

Your love for me inspired mine,

Each sharing hopes and dreams and ends.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/goodb2.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

June 22: Goodbye, Dear Friend and Graduate

Graduating Gradually

June 21, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about graduating from elementary school to middle school and then to high school.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Graduating gradually,

Rising school by school,

As I become what I will be,

Deliberately uncool.

Understanding more and more,

As I continue on,

The calling I’m intended for,

In which I’ll find my home.

Out of learning comes the dream

None but learning can redeem.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/grad14.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

June 21: Graduating Gradually

Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood

June 20, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about graduation as the border of adulthood.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Goodbye, adolescence! Hello, adulthood!

Rest assured, I’m on my merry way!

A boy is crossing over into manhood,

Destined to arrive this very day!

Unveil the future, O Ye Gods of Glory,

And fill me in on what my prospects are!

Take me to the meaning of my story,

In which I hope to be a brilliant star!

One chance is all I get. It’s starting now.

Now let me be all will and fate allow.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/goodb6.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 20: Goodbye, Adolescence! Hello, Adulthood!

Here We Have an End and a Beginning

June 19, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. Since many public schools will be having their graduation ceremonies this week, the theme for this week is graduation.

Today’s poem is a graduation poem about the bittersweet feelings a graduation can evoke.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

Here we have an end and a beginning,

A stop-time moment memory will frame,

Placed beside a christening or wedding,

Pieces of a whole one seeks in vain.

Yes, here we have a mind that looks both ways,

Glad to leave and sorry to be leaving,

Recognizing these were precious days,

A joyful liberation laced with grieving.

Does one ever listen to one’s music

Underneath one’s own incessant voice,

A quiet strain, though one ought never lose it,

That moves one to the fortune of one’s choice?

In every moment there’s a melody

One plays to mirror one’s reality,

Needing both to mourn and to rejoice.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/herew4.html. For more graduation poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/graduationpoems.html .

This week’s theme: Graduation

June 19: Here We Have an End and a Beginning

For You the Symphony Will Never End

June 18, 2017

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 is celebrated today, June 18.

Today’s poem is a Father’s Day poem about the astounding richness of the fabric created by one’s becoming a father.

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

Yours,

Nick Gordon

For you the symphony will never end,

A trillion voices on a single loom,

Tapestry so rich one can't conceive

How any will could such a wonder weave,

Even as the moments bud and bloom,

Revelations words cannot retrieve,

Senses that no sense can comprehend.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/foryo6.html. For more Father’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/fathersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Father’s Day

June 12: Fathers Are the Giants of Our Lives

June 13: Fortune’s a Chameleon, Changing Shade

June 14: Forget the Fantasies of Fatherhood

June 15: Fathers Vest Themselves in a Relation

June 16: Father’s Day Is Not Meant Just for Fathers

June 17: Hold On to What You Know – That You’re in Love

June 18: For You the Symphony Will Never End