Winter Graduation Poems

Seems like only yesterday,
when I wore a white cap and gown.              ...

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A summer comes,
A summer ends.
For now it’s time
when school begins.
To the pencils and pens
And papers to type.
To the coldness of winter
And students who fight.
To the...

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You're now at the summit after years of clawing 
your way to the top of a towering mountain.
You have blood and dirt under your fingernails;...

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When I was a child,                                         ...

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G=Graduation day I will wear my cap-gown for my dressing.               ...

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Vacuum
by Michael R. Burch

Over hushed quadrants
forever landlocked in snow,
time’s senseless winds blow...

leaving odd relics of lives half-revealed,
if still mostly concealed...
such are the things we are...

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Arduous agonizing affliction
doth unrelentingly assail...
aghast to exhale lest...lose
desperate clinging clutch
held by bloodied cracked fingernail
phantasmagoric tendrils constrict

stoppering me to whisper or wail
yawning abyss menacingly beseeches
hmm...release could...

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Ethel Hurst

1889 – 1918

I saw the town rise up
Like a single blade of grass after a spring rain.
I played a multitude of hop-scotch games
With my...

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Meme-Shatter 


The volume of a certain something

does not by any means determine its levity over any given situation

or its brevity by relation


Once you strike a...

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Preface: A poem written to my youngest step-son, whom along with his brother, I raised and 
consider my very own sons. I presented this to...

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