A Letter To - - -
“Richer than I you will never be-I had a mother
who read to me.” - Strickland W. Gillilan
(The space for the poet’s name in my title is left empty
so you can try to guess who I am writing about!)
Myriads of poems I have read in my time
online or in fine books of literature.
I’m partial to many - from free verse to rhyme.
For me, less complex has the greater allure.
Thus, thinking about to whom I’d attribute
my love for well-metered and rhymed poetry,
I realized to whom I ought to pay tribute:
the one who influenced me from my infancy!
Though some may say she was silly or trite,
the words of this poetess stay in the head
of the child whose parent reads with delight
from her pages of rhyme as they lie in bed.
I doubt there is no other poet we know
whose poems are repeated in more quantity
than she who enabled verses to flow
from the tongues of small children so easily.
Here’s to the poet unlike any other,
creating her stories and rhymes all in fun
to teach to her children -this wonder mother
*consisted of many! She was not just one!
And here’s to us all, who are rhymers at heart.
Of those who hate rhyme, I might well deduce . . . .
if read to at all, they did not get their start
from the nursery rhymes of dear Mother Goose!
*. . . it is generally thought the name (Mother Goose) originated around the 17th century. .
as an “everywoman/mother” name to assign as the author of so many tales and rhymes that mothers the world over have been telling their children throughout history.
http://www.todayifoundout.com/index.php/2013/04/who-was-the-real-mother-goose/
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