Daughter Graduation Poems

I can almost smell the fresh paint. That isn't possible however. That scent was almost 19 years ago… Butter Yellow was the name on the...

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I barely can recall the day of my college graduation.
Even though my husband was my only comrade in attendance,
I felt proud to be with cum...

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Canal channel calm
              Calm swan route rowed
     ...

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Learning a heart beats makes life go fast
My heart beats twice as fast as you think
and half as fast as I remember


When the rainbow came...

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// Note - this was the graduation poem I wrote for my daughter, 
a landscape architecture major who is also a lovely poetess //


You've blessed...

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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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Sweet blooms in golden hour's wake,
As a diploma is given with handshake.
To blue-gold skies over glassy lake,
Scarlet redbird, the clouds overtake!

Nature is alive, and so...

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As I watched our daughter watch her son graduate from college yesterday…
as our three generations aligned
I wondered if she was thinking what I once did…
If...

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You remember her running to find the beach
And when an adventure was eating a peach
And nothing she wanted was out of reach

You remember her terrified...

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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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J-ust let the twilight pass; 
H-aze and mist fade away; 
U-nderneath the blue sky, 
N-ew dawn meets the day.

M-orn nineteenth February
I-s setting Sunday aright; 
L-et...

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ANOTHER GRADUATION

Another graduation!  The seniors walk the aisle,
They stop and face the audience, they pose there with a smile.
Another graduation!  Their school years...

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Angels of pure innocents
gave us sheer elegance
bright, pretty, smart, kind, committed to excellence
from the vestiges of youthful delights
onto the challenges of the bright
passing from the...

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Your mother and I were only twenty-one
when we learned that your life had just begun.
We barely had time to find love for one another.
What did...

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A little baby girl

not even one year old

without her daddies arms

the nights felt very cold



daddy I cant breath

so to the hospital they go

mommy held me...

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