"Hold fast to dreams": 10 Poems for Graduation, Change & Moving Forward

View this email on a browser Forward to a friend May 22, 2018 Poems on Moving Forward   Share these ten poems about hope, resolve, and making choices with the graduate in your life.   "When I Grow Up I Want to Be a List of Further Possibilities" by Chen Chen "Religious Instructions for Young Casualties" by Sandra María Esteves "The Road Not Taken" by Robert Frost "Remember" by Joy Harjo "Dreams" by Langston Hughes "Prayer" by Galway Kinnell "If—" by Rudyard Kipling "Automatic Teller Machine" by Ben Mirov "Experience" by Carl Sandburg "To You" by Walt Whitman

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