Missing Mom Poems

Precious moments are gone
tears of a crying soul that long
here today gone tomorrow
in the heart sorrow
reaching and touching your hand
a heart that felt broken
thousands of...

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Back fifty-three long years ago, she left;
my Mom- at the young age of fifty-five.
Yet, she is always with me every day;
my heart and memories keep...

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An inevitable sadness 
looms up ahead
crushing my heart
and filling my head
it’s the absence of something
that’s causing this pain
the undeniable knowledge
that I’ll never see her again
my...

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When I knew no healing elixir and no cure
I never wanted to give you hopes
Yet, I lied, beautifully lied, giving hopeless hopes
Promising everything will be...

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Was I never enough or was I always too much? 
Or was I just right there missing your touch?
How could you break it through
Life gave...

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The months have past by so quickly that there isn't a day that dont go by, that I wish you were still here to get...

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Like a bird without a sky,
like a fish without a sea,
like a tree without leaves,
like a mountain spring that has run dry,
grief is the presence...

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The seasick ache
where you hold your breath
serenade in the mix of catastrophe
and the bottomless pit of emptiness

when you're

nails deep in your scalp
gripfuls of hair and...

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tears in ocean blue
missing Mom, boldly wishing
a white flower grows in the sand
a dove finds solace beside said white flower
i look at this in complete...

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Dear Mommy,                       ...

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“My family is very far away”
My mother confessed to me
As she cried.
I thought she meant
Her family halfway across
The world in South Korea,
And maybe a part...

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Oh my darling 
My Sweet 
Russian Queen
Mother of my home
Born of my dreams
Mother of my heart 
Hope sewn through our seams 
In our troubled history
Lost...

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A beacon of strength, my mother dear,
Always by my side, always near;
A leader and guide, that's what she's been,
In all of life's journey, through thick...

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*Image of Looking Out Windows by Futurity.

Futurity

I can still see dad's '65 Rambler
I can still see mom's Pineapple Upsidedown cake
Too bad I cannot still see...

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Mike's mom made a multitude of missteps;
Starting strong, she strode straight into struggles.
Calvin convinced her to try crack cocaine.
Love lost: little Mike led a lonely,...

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