Graduation's on a Mountaintop

June 24, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A graduation poem about mixed hope and fear for the future:

Graduation's on a mountaintop.

Rarely does one get a better view.

All that is in front of one is new,

Dramatic vistas that don't seem to stop.

Underneath, perhaps, there is some fear

As more familiar landscapes fall away.

The price of moving on is just that gray

Intensity that grips as changes near.

One does, however, feel the moment's grace:

Now one should one’s sweet success embrace.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

6/21: To My Sister on her Graduation

6/22: To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

6/23: Graduation Is a Time

6/24: Graduation’s on a Mountaintop

Graduation Is a Time

June 23, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A graduation poem from parents to their child:

Graduation is a time

For feeling very proud,

For thinking lots of lovely thoughts

And saying them out loud.

It's a time for feeling love

About to overflow,

And just before it leaps its banks,

To let the loved one know.

And so we’re very proud of you

For being who you are,

For making something of yourself,

For making it this far.

We’re proud because we are a part

Of everything you do.

This time's the time to say how much

Love we have for you.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

6/21: To My Sister on her Graduation

6/22: To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

6/23: Graduation Is a Time

To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

June 22, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A graduation and thank-you poem to a teacher:

To give as you have given takes a love

Hallowed by a special kind of grace.

After all, the lives we will embrace,

Now are shaped by those that our hearts move.

Kids need the kind of leader you have been.

Your efforts don't come close to the real sum:

On your life we build what we become,

Undertaking only what we've seen.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

6/21: To My Sister on her Graduation

6/22: To Give as You Have Given Takes a Love

To My Sister on Her Graduation

June 21, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A graduation poem from a younger sister or brother to an older sister:

To my sister on her graduation:

Old memories are a movie starring you.

Much of me is shaped by our relation,

Years and years of watching what you do.

So like two trees alone upon a meadow,

Interplaying with the rain and sun,

Shaped by the turning earth through light and shadow,

The growth of two becomes the growth of one.

Even as you enter your new life,

Remember how we shared the morning light.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

6/21: To My Sister on her Graduation

Hail to the Graduate

June 20, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A graduation poem from sister to brother:

Hail to the graduate!

Looking great and feeling fit!

Oh, so proud and full of it!

This day belongs to you.

You've been a lovely friend and brother.

In fact, I wouldn't have another.

In fact, I can't -- just ask our mother.

But better? There are few.

So go along and have some fun,

Learn some new things on the run,

And should you meet some special one,

Keep me in your heart, too.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

6/20: Hail to the Graduate

Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

June 19, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A graduation poem anticipating memories:

Free at last! Our childhood is over!

Now we can look back with tearful eyes

And see ourselves through sentimental lies,

As though these were for us the best years ever.

Perhaps they were, but we won't know till later,

When we have seen the landscapes of our lives,

And known the love of husbands or of wives,

And tasted of our fortunes, sweet or bitter.

For now, we're simply happy to move on

Yet sad for all that we must leave behind,

Celebrating as we say farewell.

Days and years flow swiftly through the mind,

Lingering long after they are gone

As tales we cannot help but oft retell.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

6/19: Free at Last! Our Childhood Is Over

Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain

June 18, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is graduation, in honor of the many elementary, middle-school, and high-school graduations taking place this month.

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

A congratulatory graduation poem from faculty to students:

Each of us must climb our separate mountain

To reach at last our own extended view.

We can be no more than what we are,

Yet that is quite enough for us to do.

The world is far too great for comprehension,

And so we only know what we can know.

But given the abilities we're given,

That's still a long and weary way to go.

Yet on the way, how beautiful the moments!

How good it feels to have some skill or art!

How wonderful to pause in awestruck wonder

At what must fill the unsuspecting heart!

And so we're proud of each of you today

For all you've learned, and all you've tried to learn.

Knowledge brings the deepest satisfaction,

Not least because it's something that you earn.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Graduation

6/18: Each of Us Must Climb Our Separate Mountain