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Best Graduates Poems

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Premium Member Motivation For Graduates
God's mercy and love raised you to this tier,
Amid the party of graduates assembled here.
So, think not of self more highly than you ought,
For it...

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Categories: graduates, education, graduation, inspirational, integrity,
Form: Couplet



Premium Member The Reunion
They came from as far a way as New York and Dallas Texas. The class of 1981 wasn't a large class, it was the very...

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Categories: graduates, allusion, death,
Form: Prose
America Wasn'T So Bad Back Then
We have something in common, a fellow I talk to now and then. We’re about the same age and perhaps the only ones in the...

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Categories: graduates, america,
Form: Prose
Premium Member Mustangs
MUSTANGS

The ground shudders, and shakes,
 Under pounding hooves.
 Echoing against canyon walls.
Fast and furious wild hearts beat,
Keeping equal pace, with the prairies,
 Wide divide.
From within...

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© Cherl Dunn  Create an image from this poem.
Categories: graduates, adventure, america, animal, freedom,
Form: Free verse
Premium Member My Piano Teacher
Piano Teacher

 Adored her timely teaching skills
Adored the way she never yelled nor screamed!
 even when my Piano lesson bored the heck out of me...

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Categories: graduates, career, celebration, culture, feelings,
Form: Narrative



Premium Member We Can Dream On
It used to be that many dreamed.
At least that is the way it seemed.
But that was more than a few years ago now.
A good life...

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Categories: graduates, political, dream, dream,
Form: Lyric
Pieces of Eternity (Seasons Finale)
Maybe it’s unacceptable 
Live a life capable of a true fable 
True friends never end 
But take you back to where it all began 
But...

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Categories: graduates, death, family, friendship, lost
Form: Free verse
Brand New
10/17/19
"Brand New"


I'd be damned to quit
Putting out some brand new s***
With a brand new drip
In my a step a brand new skip

Brand new tint
Steering wheel...

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Categories: graduates, dark, how i feel,
Form: Rhyme
Premium Member Holding Back His Tears
Holding back his tears
In front of him, a soldier kneels
As the mourners look on saddened
Inside the little boy feels

To grow up without his father
As he...

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Categories: graduates, father, life, loss, sad,
Form: Rhyme
Religion Is a Kindergarten To Spirituality
Religion is just a kindergarten
It’s just a preparatory school
It prepares us for formal education 
So that we don’t grow up to be a fool

Spirituality is...

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Categories: graduates, religion, spiritual,
Form: Rhyme
Graduation Day
For these which stand before you good parents and friends 
Are embellished with all your dreams for futures to come
Dressed in alma mater robe, mortar...

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Categories: graduates, graduation, parents, school,
Form: Couplet
Graduation Day
Oh my today is the day
Our little D graduates today
You are not only oh so smart
You are the one with the biggest heart

As you walk...

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Categories: graduates, childhood, daughter, father daughter,
Form: Sonnet
Graduation Song
12 long years over so fast 
Time long gone we can't go back 
School is done,  we're on our way 
The rest of our...

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Categories: graduates, celebration, childhood, future, graduation,
Form: Lyric
Premium Member The Circus
"The Circus" 
The master of ceremonies taps his cane to begin the fireworks
While graduates of the ground exercise their prowess high above
They are wired with...

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Categories: graduates, adventure, happiness, life,
Form: Free verse
The Tea Party
"Go on forth young graduates,

And show us who you are

You're now our future leaders

We know you will go far"

And so commencement ended

Pictures done and people...

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Categories: graduates, america, future, graduate, graduation,
Form: Epic

Book: Reflection on the Important Things