Mother Love Poems

I wish I could put into words the love a mother has for her child. It is a depth that no one else can reach....

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Yesterday,
I was writing poems about small things—
how small beings dwell,
how they endure,
the quiet life we don't notice.
A spider spinning a web in a corner.
A bird...

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How enlightened I feel
Her music so surreal
I wonder on her ordeal
Whatt makes her feel these feels?

Does she chant them back in silence?
Read and recollect at...

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To each of my children please know I love you.
If you weren't my children, I don't know what I'd do.
As babies and infants you brought...

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I creep into your room, my steps are unsteady,
You went to bed with symptoms of the flu,
A soft child’s breath is what I seek,
To touch,...

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The way he gazes at the moon, 
Doesn't quite feel right; every day he has a different tune. 
I envy his starlight, the perfect fit...

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When Little Boys Fall in Love

A Meditation on Growing Up

## I. [Age 6] — First Light
You gather caps like secret gold,
Arrange them neat, their stories...

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Spring in your eyes –
I feel it there,
the way they smile.
Like winter's heavy cloak,
the days of stress,
simply erased.

I fall in love every spring.
primavera –
the sound,
my...

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My firstborn son, my heart’s new dawn,
Your tiny cry, the light that shone
In that first breath, I learned to be
The mom I’d always longed to...

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I gave Him all thanks when she was born,   					             
my...

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     I am the voice of your conscience
       You would bury my memory
...

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My parents didn’t teach me love—
I learned it from the silence.

My mother never asked
why my eyes were red.
She looked,
but never really saw.

My father only noticed...

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“That Night, I Became a Mother”

She came in and curled up to sleep,
not a care, not a sound—
while her brother cried soft, lost sobs
in the...

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The Dark men fought on past their mother,
many had seen the mighty one fall
they fought on with bitter hate,
as now, once more, did the mother...

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Fierce goblins rode these wolves,
their curved scimitars, raining death,
their fierce visage could freeze the heart,
they moved with the giant spiders,
death comes in so many ways.
The...

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