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The 30th Anniversary Of Graduating From High School

I dropped out of high school in August of 1986.
In 1993, that was a mistake that I decided to fix.
I was only fifteen years old when I dropped out.
When I ask people not to make my mistake, there is no doubt.
I studied from April of 1993 to June of 1995 and it was very cool.
I

Categories: graduating, anniversary, graduate, school,
Form: Rhyme

graduating from room 101

i once stood
within my own shipwreck
blaming cruel seas

years past
flotsam and jetsam
built a driftwood home

when storms came
that ramshackle shelter
self-destructed
while i
cursed foul weather

looking outward
never seeking inward
i decried a faithless fate

unt
a blinding truth
ransacked
an unseeing mind

simply that

I ALONE
am the author
of my own life-long
melodrama

none other than me
bore this responsibility

of such a tangled

tragicomedy

Categories: graduating, poetry,
Form: Free verse

Molly Is Graduating

I am leaving work today at one.
To meet granddaughter and have some fun.
We will shop and eat and act so danged young!
I sing from a rooftop using my biggest lung.

Molly graduates on Saturday.
Starting a new life to live her very own way.
This may be her grandma’s last chance
To frolic, laugh, listen, whistle, play and dance.

Categories: graduating, graduation, granddaughter, grandmother,
Form: Rhyme

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Methacton High School Graduating Class Mcmlxxvii

diploma acquired magna cum laude – double entendre

Xlv years elapsed since
I (former long haired pencil necked geek)
bid alma mater adieu,
the quietest kid, who never said boo
nobody discerned handy dandy blues clue
what yours truly thought,
cause figurative blanks he drew
remaining quiet as a Unitarian church mouse
never uttered a dog gone peep
extrovertedness he did eschew
even now two score

Categories: graduating, 10th grade, 11th grade,
Form: Rhyme

Graduating From the School of Hard Knocks

1 Knocked to the Ground

There’s no bell, nor stars—
just bloody knees.
You haven’t thought of heaven or hell,
when you cursed the sneeze.

2 Ignoring the Obvious Cause

Using a whisk
to dust off the hole in your knees.
You’re a bigg’n
who straightens your back,
though your neck won’t 
calibrate left, right or South.

3 Whoops

Why’d you fall on your whoopie
cushion? Tailbone thrashing
like

Categories: graduating, christian,
Form: Free verse

Heavy Heart

My heart is working differently
Recently,
It is not pulsing rhythmically
It is beating very heavily
Driving me to sadness slowly

Yes, i am almost done with school
Yet, i feel like a fool
For letting everything spill
Not keeping memories of me when i was still
Young, passionate and free like the old me
Now my heart is tearing whiling bleeding
And i don't even

Categories: graduating, class, goodbye, graduation, heartbreak,
Form: Free verse

Thine Eldest Graduating Sharply Splendidly Supremely

Into Young Womanhood

this glorious role, sans
     helping beget and nurture thine first born
three day shy of Christmas 1996,
     fills thy being
     with joie de vivre and doth add dorn

more resplendent than any horn
of plenty, and aye can only imagine

Categories: graduating, 12th grade, absence, daughter,
Form: Elegy

Graduating

she now knows love
love, not a lifeless thing
that she used to talk about those days
while carrying a backpack
full of books and binders

a mustang she wanted to drive
symbol of success and speed
a perfect blend with boom
and the ooze of black-gold

but today for her
only one thing that matters
living with a man
sharing his failure
to graduate from a high

Categories: graduating, beautiful, career, caregiving, celebration,
Form: Free verse