Graduation Narrative Poems

Dear Dawn:

Look at the elements in the skies and make a wish before the stars die, the moon is gleaming underneath the clouds, and the...

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So much of life is about gains and losses.
The gains we appreciate, but not the losses.
Our gains in life are too numerous to list.
Many or...

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Your diary is filled with dates of meetings and functions that you have to attend; graduation ceremony and wine tasting events and meeting with the...

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"The Kingfisher" 

Easters
fast escape us
like every 
Christmas 
comes and goes
like a Graduation
where the parent
is excluded
and the lost 
prodigious progeny
eventually 
makes their quest
for an elusive
Holy Grail
buried...

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Binary Math Rules.

Let me tell you a tale, my friend,
Of ones and zeros that never end.
A world of binary, simple and true,
With rules to help...

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Fifty-seven years ago, when I was but a child, I thought my mom and dad were pretty cool.
The only things they ever did that really...

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For the record, this piece was NOT inspired by ME!

FYI:  I'll be posting a bunch of my AUDIO files over the next few months,...

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Her name was Janet, she was thirty-two,
and she hadn’t been in this town for years,
she’d gone to college here, back in those days,
but looking back...

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Something about him
  had caught her eye
He was a bit different
  from the rest of the guys

He kept to himself
  quiet, reserved
A...

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Heat, in the shade, with a drink and a parade - of graduates, blue and gold. An army sent out to take on the world....

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V.
From the day it seemed that things just got worse,
she started handing with less-than-great friends,
and more than once she was caught cutting class,
more and more...

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At forty-four years young, I thought I would be the oldest graduate.
In an auditorium that held sixteen thousand people, but I still did.
I was getting...

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Poetry saved my soul
It was accidentally on purpose
I fell into it, and stayed seated

The teacher highly discouraged me
It was a graduate level course
He assured me...

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My Child

I have failed in my duty as a parent. 
You have fallen away. 
What can I say now to the Lord, 
as I am...

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Knock, Knock

Mom. 
I missed my bus. 
I am going to be late. 
Class will start without me. 
They will be mad..
at me. 

Mom.
Are you up...

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