Mothers
...I am kind and understanding
I have survived her’s father
I have survived the Connection
But I am nothing without my daughter
Her link has been broken
But fear of death is my drive
I will not ha...
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Categories:
great mother, 12th grade,
Form: Rhyme
Twisted love
...When I try to forget you
I just keep on remembering
Memories of my sadness
Everything in total blackness
You were grieving, I understand
But you left me alone, life i had to withstand
You d...
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Categories:
great mother, betrayal, child, deep,
Form: Free verse
What Will You Do
...("The Mothership", 2024, original encaustics digitally collaged by Stephen Langer)
What Will You Do
When the aliens come
What will you do?
Will you go dragged kicking and screaming
On...
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Categories:
great mother, allegory, birth, death, life,
Form: Narrative
MOTHER DEAREST
...
Sweetest love of best care
comes from Mother dearest
greeting with morning glow
midst prayer that’s fervent
for the Lord’s blessing flow.
Sweetest love of best care
is exposed a...
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Categories:
great mother, appreciation, blessing, christian, god,
Form: Monchielle Stanza
Quietyly Trued Reasonings
...Quietly true... You’re good in God reasoning
You have a gift of innocent youthful passion
On a unabridged Again minus your dislikes (apathy)
I don't want to do it, boredoms. Boredom...
You're...
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Categories:
great mother, allusion, analogy, appreciation,
Form: Free verse
Oh, I Doo Love a Didge
...Oh, how I doo love a didge..
Toned like one of many voices of our great Mother Earth; entrancing and slightly shamanic.
It's how I imagine She hums to Herself, deep in Her rhythmic, rumbling grou...
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Categories:
great mother, fun, happiness, music, senses,
Form: Free verse
A Lakota Mother's Prayer
...‘Wana Hin Gle’ the Lakota call me,
‘Wana Hin Gle’ my given name
‘He Who Happens Now,’ the drumbeat has found me,
reaching into this moment beyond glory and fame
As ‘Wana Hin Gle,’ my spirit h...
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Categories:
great mother, native american, prayer,
Form: Rhyme
Mother's Day 2022
...Today is Mother's Day of 2022.
But I can not spend it with you.
You died over nine years ago.
Love was what you once showed.
Many people celebrate this day.
But in 2013, you passed away.
Mother...
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Categories:
great mother, family, mother, mothers day,
Form: Rhyme
Woman
...“The Hand that Rocks the Cradle is the Hand That Rules the World”
by William Ross Wallace
Oh! Woman
Aren’t you God’s supreme handiwork?
An animated form of chiseled art
A joy to beh...
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Categories:
great mother, analogy, life, light, mother,
Form: Ode
Tribute To Women
...Born into the lap of loneliness
Adam paced restless up and down
God knew he badly needed a mate
And willed the solitary man, a companion
Nonpareil in beauty and grace,
God wanted her...
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Categories:
great mother, angel, beauty, bible, women,
Form: Free verse
Mother Russia Needs No Putin
...Why can the world not rid itself
Of this wart on the world body politic?
A man who thinks too highly of himself
Making the entire free world heartsick
Why must we have these Hitler-types
Who ...
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Categories:
great mother, perspective, political, war,
Form: Rhyme
I Am Africa
...I AM AFRICA
I am a mother not a murderer
Patronage of numerous natural resources
Filled with beautiful creatures are my tropical
My heritage, adorned with glorious cultures
In the forest of the ...
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Categories:
great mother, 6th grade, africa, art,
Form: Elegy
Be One With Nature
...The Young man travels
Surrounded by the Great Sprit
Be one with nature
Feels the energy
0f rocks, trees, mountains, animals…
Be one with nature
Adventure - Wonder
Respect - Freedom - B...
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Categories:
great mother, animal, nature, spiritual,
Form: Haiku
My Promise
...Oh my little champion
I know I am not a great mother
But I am competing with myself to be the best and that you know well
Now I do have the issues of inexperience and normal human flaws
I am mo...
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Categories:
great mother, angel, baby, beautiful, wisdom,
Form: Free verse
A Beckoning
...I hear you, Mother. Calling me.
To walk upon you with naked feet.
And feel your breath caress my face,
and find in you my sacred space.
This ache in my heart grows ever stronger,
I can't ignore ...
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Categories:
great mother, earth, environment, hope, humanity,
Form: Rhyme
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