I learned to enjoy beating the Richies academically. One day, a crowd of them was waiting for me outside of my “jock” chemistry class to see who always got the highest score on exams. The same was true in mathematics. I learned that I had no future in sports. The football and basketball teams I [...]

Wow! Can you imagine graduation day just like that! Flames of the Spirit piercing you, giving you power, authority Tongues of flames giving tongues to speak to the people around the world such an ordination ceremony was the Pentecost, when the disciples became the apostles, the teachers, when the meek gained their mettle and preachers [...]

She wore her sister’s dress again this time to her graduation the same dress, her sister wore to start her school year two years ago marking milestones on the digital frame sisters walking together in staccato steps each growing in their own time their own ways growing so fast before our eyes This poem was [...]

I heard the murmurs, the exclaiming the muted hushed knowing on the growing, the maturing the changes in all of them the little children who became students the girls and boys who walked into the class and the young learners leaving ready for more challenges greater lessons, with a foundation built laid brick by brick [...]

Another school year and I’m out of place beyond graduation alien in my home, Where I lived for three years This poem was written/submitted by Raymond A. Foss.

I am fourteen and my skin has betrayed me the boy I cannot live without still sucks his tumb in secret how come my knees are always so ashy what if I die before the morning comes and momma’s in the bedroom with the door closed. I have to learn how to dance in time [...]

Some people, and it doesn’t matter whether they are paupers or millionaires, Think that anything they have is the best in the world just because it is theirs. If they happen to own a 1921 jalopy, They look at their neighbor’s new de luxe convertible like the wearer of a 57th Street gown at a [...]

At her Junior High School graduation, she sings alone in front of the lot of us– her voice soprano, surprising, almost a woman’s. It is the Our Father in French, the new language making her strange, out there, fully fledged and ready for anything. Sitting together — her separated mother and father — we can [...]

Everyone aspires for an education Studying the lessons is the action Today after those struggles I made Eventually I got my hard earned degree Rendering a professional work now for fee. Best parents I do have possess Always behind me in the process. Now I am grateful for their support Deep inside I am proud [...]

Life is what happens while you are making other plans. A person of words and not deeds is like a garden full of weeds. It’s better to be trusted than liked, Underpromise – Overperform. The key to happiness and success is to have a dream. All the flowers of tomorrow are in the seeds of [...]