Nostalgia Mom Poems

I let you cut my hair.
Whether you were doing well
Or about to make a fool
Of your only daughter
Completely irrelevant
As I focused on your
Darting nervous eyes
The...

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Time to load up the family Dodge and hit the open road.
Our backs to California, the wheels rolling east towards the deep south. 
Arriving by...

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Looking back, one thing comes clean-glass clear
you were always there for me subduing every fear.

I tried to do my duty, be a husband strong and...

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I smiled when the cow had a calf
She was so alive with pleasure
Pregnant for a year and a half
She had the babe at her leisure

For...

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gentle wind comforting me
total vibe filled with glee
the scent of Christmas in the air
imagining a space with you standing there
inspiration growing in remembrance of you...

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With warm, loving memories of my mom,
appreciation and blessing I frame.
Like poets of old, I’m penning this psalm
to give praise to those who earn that...

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A MOTHERS’ MEMORIAL DAY
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS


The Is No Measure with Which to Gauge the Pain
Nor the Silent Bitterness Which Will Always Remain
In the Grief Stricken...

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Chicken noodle soup fixes everything, I used to hear, from my mother.
I had tried everything but chicken noodle soup this week on my cold.
Cold pills,...

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The fifties brought on dazzling star Lucille
Zany and bubbly she was ideal 
O like no other sitcom
Pure entertainment for Mom
Laughing at each week's new crazy...

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Mommy, can we go to the corner store?
I’ve saved my allowance for two weeks.
I must have a hundred bucks, maybe more!
I want chocolates to fill...

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mom pensive
at the window
of nostalgia



AP: Honorable Mention 2023

Submitted on January 2, 2020 for contest SENRYU ON MOTHER sponsored by JENISH SOMADAS

Originally posted on September 14,...

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Evil under the bed,
Bogeyman alive
Child barely three
Hair stands up on arms
Cannot sleep tonight

Calls for mommy
Calls for daddy
Calls more loudly
Someone comes now

Touch, cuddle
Hug, snuggle
Reassured

Sleep comes
Mom’s arms

Safe...

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Hooray it’s laundry day
A perfectly lazy day
Where all I need do
Is get up once in a while
For quick transfers
Just a flick of a button
And wait...

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It dawned on me that you had gone, long before I could fathom your character
That thawed my heart away, into a tune that cannot be...

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I wished if I was a child again
Life was full of fun again
I wished if I was your naughty son again
And you were my cute...

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