Dedication ceremony poems

This poem was chosen and read by Emma's friend, Chelsea:


i carry your heart with me (i carry it in
my heart) i am never without it (anywhere
i go you go,my dear; and whatever is done
by only me is your doing,my darling)


i fear no fate(for you are my fate, my sweet) i want
no world(for beautiful you are my world, my true)
and you are whatever a moon has always meant
and whatever a sun will always sing is you


here is the deepest secret nobody knows
(here is the root of the root and the bud of the bud
and the sky of the sky of a tree called life;which grows
higher than the soul can hope or mind can hide)
and this is the wonder that's keeping the stars apart


i carry your heart(i carry it in my heart)


ee cummings


I chose this poem, which was read by one of the senior class officers:


About Angels and About Trees
by Mary Oliver


Where do angels
fly in the firmament,
and how many can dance
on the head of pin?


Well. I don't care
about the pin dance,
what I know is that
they rest, sometimes,
in the tops of trees


and you can see them,
or almost see them,
or, anyway, think: what a
wonderful idea.


I have lost as you and
others have possibly lost a
beloved one,
and wonder, where are they now?


The trees, anyway, are
miraculous, full of
angels (ideas); even
empty they are a
good place to look, to put
the heart at rest - all those
leaves breathing the air, so
peaceful and diligent, and certainly
ready to be
the resting place of
strange, winged creatures
that we, in this world, have loved.