Mother Love Poems

The Seconds 

[Excerpts]

 
(c) 2019, Anita Lerek
 
 
 
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First Generation - Before the Holocaust 

 
Lvov, Poland 1930s.  Mother, you were a...

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Take to the birth canal to climb out
Don't hurt mother or her humble womb
Leave the cervix intact, alone
Climb into the light through tears
See it for...

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I remember lying in the midday sun
Body slathered with Johnson’s baby oil,
I was almost fifteen and barely needed to shave.

I remember my mother in the...

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Oh, may LOVE feel its worth, though a concept like time,
Much less Entropy's increase no longer makes sense.
Will light still earn thought's praise if no...

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RENEWED
By Dawne Zacharias

I Wanted to sit and write this day
of some feelings, I found this morn 
Of the many sisters, I’ve misjudged 
And left all...

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Hey wife of mine, my heart is aching cause I miss you so much
You warm hugs, your sweet kisses... your gentle touch
I miss your spontaneous...

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Because you were conceived in love
Because I sang to you each night in the womb
Because I was the first human being to hold you in...

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I.

ROMANCE begins 
with a supernovae
 as two

hearts decrease space between
walls and fears; the ice-floe
of painful life melts,

once powerful thoughts and
conviction now powerless,
against a force of...

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When you and I were children, many wonderful stories were read and told to us,          ...

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Peace is not just the absence of war
  Peace is the noblest goal to work for  

Peace between mother and father, sister and...

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A young girl giggles her way through the summer spongey swelter.
Her parents succumbed to the insistent call to close their eyes after a fried chicken...

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I trace my existence back to

Iye mwen N’ogie (My great Mother).

You see when I was but a foetus

In a womb of the homo sapien whom...

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You can never go back 
That's what they say 
But, you never listen 
And you go anyway 

When I pulled into town 
It was almost the same 
Everything looks smaller 
But, its you...

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I dreamed about my dad
He was 53 - my age
the same age he was when he left us

he told me
wake up, boy
let us go to...

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Moments & Memories 
By: Tom Wright
Dec. 2, 1998

What is a moment,
but an undetermined increment in time?
Some of which as we look back,
we've categorized as tender...

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Mother 
Even though I am out of sight
And God has choosen to turn off the light
Dont cry, don't ask him why
Just try not to hurt...

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7).  SORRY ••• Sorry mum??

So I'm going to spend a moment 

A moment maybe to late 

A moment to say sorry 

To a mother...

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THE GARDEN OF LOVE AND GUILT

Judas, was destined to be the traitor to betray our Saviour,
Paid 30 pieces silver for him to perform guilty behavior
Satan...

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mother-
i know now
that you made me the star
and you the stripe
as i once again
smell the smoke that lit up each morning
after the salt and pepper...

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"50 Words for Poe: The Woods"





Close my eyes




All goes dark
then a small spark 
the world opens 



LIGHT


My woods


Dusk


Twilight


to


Dawn


to 


DARK


to


LIGHT


There you are:

kinda frightened
kinda brave
kinda bring-it-on
kinda like...

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