Welcome to my April 2026 Great and Powerful Blogging from A to Z Challenge!

I’ve revealed my theme (A poem a day…maybe even with pictures), and of course, I am unashamedly blogging my theme letters on the fly.  So, here goes nothing!

So, without further ado, O is for … Oops…I forgot to post yesterday.

And not only that, I forgot that A to Z is only six days a week not seven, so I had gotten ahead off myself and not am behind…hopefully I will be on track now after today.

I felt a graduation in my spine (inspired by Emily Dickinson)

I felt a graduation in my spine
tingles running down
as students finish,
long years of study

They sit gowned in black,
caps perched,
tassels draped, ready
to move from right to left.

When names are called,
diplomas pass from hand
To hand. The audience,
they all were seated until

mothers, fathers, sisters
brothers,  rise up
And then I heard them
lift hands, applaud.

They walk across the stage,
return to seats, drop down
and watch. Then stand, toss caps,
and finish, not knowing what’a next.

Thanks for visiting my 2026 A to Z Challenge – Letter O.