Graduation Free Verse Poems

Upon my graduation from MIT,
they didn’t hand me a diploma.
They handed me a mask—
and a seat at the table of shadows.

They called me Director,
but in...

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Our journey began like a joke in 2016,
Things seemed to be moving upside down,
We had miss on to complete before 2019,
We are glad to be...

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the thought of you is consuming me
even as I consume content
on how to communicate with you.

I won’t turn on the camera—
the perception of being perceived
is...

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Six besties had agreed
at graduation,
pinky swore,
to meet ten years later
no matter where they'd be,
come what may.

And here they were finally:
Gayle, Suzie, Diane, Donna, Lucy, Michelle,
together...

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I feel all pasts,
As if they were yesterday,
Decades are but minutes to my minds and feels.
As if I were still two-tens and five,
Rather than three-tens...

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This June when you walk down the aisle
For your high school graduation
You will start on your short vacation
You will finally have your degree
And now you...

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I’m new to ‘self directed study,’ it’s a construction I’ve never known. It’s kind of a faustian bargain that resembles another self-paced activity—treading water. The...

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Throwing our caps 
looking back at the last four years
mix of bittersweet moments 
fear creeping in 
nervous about what the future  
feels weird to...

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Through the academic years
The feeling of uncertain and fear
Here I am on graduation day being my personal preserver
The studies were hard and long
I wondered is...

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If Nothing Had Happened
If nothing had happened,
a simple birthday song would have been heard.
Ribbons would have been hastily untied from presents.

If nothing had happened,
graduation would...

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I was going to become a teacher
I thought it was my calling

I was young and thought it best
to go to university straight out of high...

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corners

i have walked around corners
when i should have stood still
driven fast in slow zones
and sat at the apex of silent
stone walls

i've said words i meant...

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Our caps flew like confetti.
Thank god I customized mine.
I'll keep it as a memento of all-nighters,
friendships formed in the academic trenches,
dismissive professors and group-project-tortures.

This isn’t...

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here it is,
the end of our chapter,
i can finally tell that little child its over.
those endless years,
now they didn’t even seem that slow,
time to explore...

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Words activate something in me
even if I’m just thinking, not writing.
So I soon find myself back at the keyboard.
It seems that my life’s been a...

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