Women Mom Poems

I am off to join the carnival
Can I go, Mom?
Can I go?

No, honey, you have to stay here.
Learn to cook.
Sweep the floor. It is so...

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It used to be if you were a mom you just had to produce a healthy lunch.
or an unhealthy one, as long as it had...

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It was a cold December night when we finally met in the flesh .
Our souls however had always been intertwined.
When we look at each other...

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O Mama, do you have company up there?
Your mommy, your sweet daddy, do you ever see them?
The sun no longer has the same courtesy here,
He...

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I
You have a vivid mind, heart, vocabulary
A lover of God, I make excuses (true, right)
Yes, South Africa fails us in electricity
Still, Shakespeare worked by candlelight

II
I...

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A dead tree looks like a stone 
Of thousand years black, fissured and tan-faced, 
But still no hopes to fall down:
The secret is that she...

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Do not stir up Mom we warned Grandma
It is not yet six.
She is still enjoying her coffee Jacuzzi.
Where is she? Grandma asked.
In the kitchen....

Grandma did...

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Every morning I see my dad in the mirror.
Same hazel eyes
Same round chin
Same freckles
Same bad teeth
Same straight up haywire hair
“Hi Dad!” I say
My eyes grin,...

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The eternal seaman

Coming from the sea, he stayed at a B/B hotel Churchill 
 near the railway station in Liverpool, a handy place for working...

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I dream of my pretty mom daily...
each minute, each hour that the clock strikes,
I grieve her shedding sorrowful tears;  
if only distance didn't keep...

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 In her womb, I laid 
grew my hands, legs…
till I was fully formed.
Got out after nine months,
laid on her back,
In her arms,
On her laps…
She...

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When I was young,                     ...

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The customs men shake their heads
and watch the women enter Mexico.
Three with skirts, white socks,
one with jeans 
and proper blouse.
Seventeen, eighteen
just out of Concord Academy
in...

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Please

Please don't cry. 
Please don't cry anymore. 
In my memory I can still hear you. 
I can never forget. 
My heart will always hurt inside,...

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I am an only daughter
Because I never had a biological sister
It is safe to say
God has blessed me
With lots of women in my family

My mom...

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