Best Mother Poems
Below are the all-time best Mother poems written by Poets on PoetrySoup. These top poems in list format are the best examples of mother poems written by PoetrySoup members
Missing MotherBits of me are missing mother,
the bits of me which you placed.
Bits of me are missing Mother;
ah, ...
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Categories:
mother, depression, devotion, me, missing,
Form:
Verse
This Song Is For My MotherThis song is for my mother
Let her hear me cry
I couldn’t bring myself to write it
‘Til this darkened day arrived
A song about old promises
Made...
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Categories:
mother, angst, death, dedication, depression,
Form:
Ballad
Will You Tie My Shoes When I Grow OldYou were beautiful,
my tiny child,
wrapped tightly in my arms,
close to my heart.
I listened to you breathing.
I counted your fingers
and your toes.
Helpless,
you...
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Categories:
mother, caregiving, childhood, daughter, growing
Form:
Narrative
Sleepless NightSleepless Night
Teardrops, bagged eyes, a way of sin
The mirror reveals a lost eternal soul
A conniving move against tonight's phantom glow
Voices circle around the insomniac moon
Like...
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Categories:
mother, anger, death, farewell, memory,
Form:
Dramatic Verse
A Gift of LoveAround my mom, I always felt my guilt
My conscience seem to always take her side
Some years ago, I gave her a new quilt
I still recall...
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Categories:
love, mother,
Form:
Sonnet
As Flowers Crumble Collaboration With Silent OneLullabies through tear filled eyes
It's truly, love at first sight
The bond is forged and galvanized
To hold forever tight
Each time you needed a hand
She always had...
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Categories:
love, mother son,
Form:
Rhyme
A Poem For My Algebra TeacherI know I promised
no more ‘Make you Cry Poems’
I said I'd never write another
‘Wipe your eye poem’
And for three years
I tried...
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Categories:
mother, 6th grade, abuse, betrayal,
Form:
Free verse
Garden of MumMum sat in her aromatic garden,
admiring its charm and grace.
It was a cold morning,
but mum never seemed to feel it any more.
Her eyes were tired,...
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Categories:
mother, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
-unlatched-_______________________
So young, I was, and so naive
There was no doubt, I did believe
this babe who's latched inside my womb
with ties we had,... would always be
Latched...
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Categories:
childhood, family, mother, son,
Form:
Rhyme
Petals and PoetryIn a world full of unwelcome nightmares,
I recite dreams of poetry to the one who cares.
I'm pondering a perfect metaphor,
trying to portray my mum's devotion.
Thinking...
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Categories:
appreciation, child, mother son,
Form:
Free verse
BelongingsShadowed in the silent room, the daylight's nearly gone
Dusk climbs in through window glass, with one last ray of sun
I start the task, climb on...
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Categories:
loss, love, me, mother,
Form:
Rhyme
A Tear-Ful Conversation With My DaughterIt starts with only one -
one like me
a melancholy migrant
from the immortal part of her
to the locus of her physical being --
the center of her...
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Categories:
mother, i love you, i
Form:
Free verse
Categories:
mother, analogy, dance, joy, life,
Form:
Couplet
The HomecomingIt was in late October in the year nineteen seventy three
That the war in South Vietnam was finally over for me
I boarded the seven o...
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Categories:
america, father, home, mother,
Form:
Narrative
Walk TallI was born and raised in a little town by the name of Calder
That was just twenty miles south of the Canadian border
As a boy I...
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Categories:
mother, america, death, drink, drug,
Form:
Narrative