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Texas ISD School Guide
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Short Stories for Teachers

Graduation Verses - Samples For You to Choose From
By:Sabrina Lawton

To have some graduation verses at hand during graduation is a must. Graduation is a special, exciting time for any graduate. Whether the graduate is exiting high school or college, graduation is the beginning of a new life and exciting time! There are samples for you to choose from.

This kind of excitement and expectancy can be hard to put into words--that's why it's extra important to have some verses and graduation thank you verses at hand.

The people who wrote these verses spent a lot more time finding the right words than we usually do. Sometimes they've even spent years expressing the kinds of thoughts and feelings that can occur to the graduate. Then the student can use these poems, quotes, etc. in announcements, commencement speeches, and thank you cards.

What graduation verses, graduation thank you verses and poetry are good for which situations?

Robert Frost's The Road Less Taken (sometimes understandably mis-remembered as The Road Less Traveled) is a popular choice for graduations. It is a poem about individualism and personal freedom. What else could be better for those about to finally strike out in the world on their own terms?

(Well...you could counter with Yogi Berra's take on that kind of similar situation: "When you arrive at a fork in the road, take it.")

But Robert Frost isn't the only writer of "graduation poems". Langston Hughes's Dreams lets youth know that anything is possible, as long as the dream of it is held and believed in.

This is an excellent compliment to recent self-help material concerning The Law of Attraction, such as the movie and book The Secret. It's also a very important statement about how to steer one's life, for those who are brave enough to listen.

Of course there has to be a joker in every class. You never know when everyone's diploma might come stuffed with a strip of paper that says,

"Roses are red
Violets are blue
You'll walk out of here
With gum on your shoe."

And really that's fine, because everybody should have fun at graduation. It would only be a problem if someone wrote that on the actual diploma.

Of course, every graduate who doesn't want to seem ungrateful should send thank you words in the form of a thank you note for each graduation gift she or he receives. Most students will be too busy getting ready for college to look for appropriate graduation verses, graduation thank you verses or other stylized thank you words. Fortunately, there are a variety of thank you cards sold with appreciation verses, for just this purpose - they are even sold by the box!

Get graduation verses or thank you verses to copy and paste for all occasions at Graduation Verses and free Graduation Thank You Verses at the Thank You Note Wording website. http://www.thankyounotewording.info/






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