Best Maternal Poems

Written for my heart, my son, Kyle


Wash me gentle in the river –
	Ease me on down with care.
I’m an emotional giver –
	It’s my song in the air.
Dry me smooth upon shore’s sliver -
	Warm away my despair.

Constant tears are in my eyes,
But I’ll deny that I...

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I am the sum of the ages
beginning before my mother,
before my grandmother,
and before my grandmother's mother.

I am the product of their matriarchal choices,
the quotient of their actions, reflections, and self-images.
I am the difference of their generations.

And I bequeath the equation of this inheritance
to the matrices...

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With magnetic fascination
akin to domestication
I connect with Ms. Rabbit’s dawn.
Four babies she’s laid in my lawn.

Provoked by supernal emotion
stirred by a sense of procreation
I cancel lawn fertilizer.
Grass cutter? I will advise her.

Unparalleled admiration
drives my kids to affirmation.
They promise to protect new pets
no bikes, baseballs or...

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Who first gave to us the gift
Of how to love each other?
Was it not from infancy,
We gleaned it from our mother?

Who first gave the loving touch
Of tenderness and care?
Was it not a daily gift
Of mother being there?

Who first kissed us on the cheek,
Who studied every...

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For the Sweetest Little Sister Ever, My Lizzy
My love for you now aches with an acute, piercing concern.
I feel your emotions shudder inside my own heart’s downturn.
Lean on me, let me absorb your aches as maternal will not break.
      ...

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Special relationships are developed and strengthened over the years;
And those relationships reveal an obligation to fulfil when wisdom begins to knock during the tweens;
Oh what a shame, a shock, an ocean of tears brews like fresh coffee;
The aroma of unpleasant emotions desires to embrace the...

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breast cancer runs rampant within me late mother side
whar moost every female diagnosed with emotional ride
into the depths of despair where metastatic cells pried
their way into the appendages whar din o suckling provide
did initial sustenance prior to malignant growth lied 

Innocuously within fleshy tissue til...

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Love being gave birth...

Nurtured by her purity...

God's gift is mother......

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When mum would talk to other folks about her family,
She’d always speak particularly proudly about me … 
Of how I’d gone to grammar school, my bookish ‘steel-trap’ mind.
To hear her, you would think I was a boon to all mankind! 

It should have made me...

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Baby powder soft,
Warm security comfort -
Worthiness restored.
Rocking, patting love cures deep -
Maternal gifts bloom life long.





... CayCay Jennings...

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The imaginary unborn
lives within my soul
It will never die
or ever get old
Yet there's a joy
that lies within
the depths of my being...

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MATERNAL LOVE

                              Mother Duck and Ducklings venture from cattail cover
      ...

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To be a mother is to be 
rain and sunshine at once

to drown oneself while saving another
and to give hope while being hopeless.

To be a mother is 
exciting and scary

with bouts of anxiety and care
preaching self love while hating self

To be a mother is to...

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she knew he was wrong, very wrong, yet she loved her son dear,
mother’s love is divine strong, from darkness would steer him clear!

Premier contest winner (9)
Written 25/09/21
Your best rhyming poetry contest
Milton L Hankins sponsored
14 syllables each line...

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She watches with head tipped to the side
The smile on her face spreads wide
Days full of giggles and laughter
If tomorrow never comes this is her happily ever after.

Playful rhymes, singing and dance
Sharing these moments are her new romance
Jumping in puddles, spinning around
Building sand castles she...

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