I love you Mom

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Written, April 28, 2022
Poetry/Ode/I Love You Mom
Copyright Protected, ID 04-1451-480-28
All Rights Reserved, 2022, Constance La France

Written for the International Contest, A Mother's Love
Tribute of Love for Mother's Day
Sponsor, BJ Legros Kelley, Judged 05/03/2022

First Place

Party, Good Morning, Mother, Daughter, Child, Love

My healthy arm will be your stay; And I will smooth your pain away; And when I see you hang your head; It will be my turn to watch your bed; And tears of sweet affection shed. " Quote - from Ann Taylor's poem, My Mother I will turn back the pages of sorrow, to the sad May day my mother left me; the details recalled each 'morn and 'morrow, as her breath became gasps- I did not flee. Then, stood by her coffin screaming inside, tears falling, whispering- oh, why God why; she had left me on Mother's Day that year, to her cold headstone my thoughts often glide; I set her free- so up, up she could fly, turn off life support . . . I said with a tear ! Mother was my very best friend always, loved her garden and country adventures; mom, so calm even when roads were a maze, so we would stop the car to take pictures. Our home had a huge vast sunny garden, since a child I helped mom with the flowers; those days are some of my best memories, nesting close by we had a Blue Martin; we could linger there for - hours, hours and hours, Mother's day . . . will be lost in reveries ! I never met a more joyful kind soul, my sweet mom embraced every single day; to others she had so much self-control, mother was happy and gay everyday. She made each birthday a celebration, each Christmas Day . . . gifts, family and food; I was mothers decoration helper, think that I was often her frustration; always to my poetry she was glued, my mom was my rock, true north and shelter !

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Valsa George

Date: 5/13/2024 7:03:00 PM

What beautiful memoirs of your mother. Every child who has lost a loving mother can relate to this. I am glad to find that my mother too had some similarities with your mom. My mother's two interests were cooking and gardening. It particularly pained me that your mom left you on Mother's Day. A touching tribute.

Constance La France
Date: 5/19/2024 5:25:00 PM

Valsa, thank you for the lovely comment and compliment, hugs

Sara Etgen-Baker

Date: 5/12/2024 4:35:00 PM

I can see why your poem won first place in such a prestigious contest. I just don't have the words to give this poem the justice it deserves. Your ode captured the depth of your mother's heart, her spirit, and her strength. She must've been such an inspiration for you. I can see why you'd consider her your rock. Thanks for sharing such a lovely, eloquent poem. Have a pleasant evening, hugs, Sara

Constance La France
Date: 5/13/2024 6:48:00 PM

Sara, thank you for the compliment, and lovely comment, my mom was everything to me, every thing I do well, is because of her, hugs

Suzette Richards

Date: 5/12/2024 6:50:00 AM

This is a very moving tribute, Constance. Your love and devotion shines through your poem.

Constance La France
Date: 5/12/2024 3:29:00 PM

Suzette, thank you for the compliment and comment, appreciate, hugs