Mother Poems. Read and share beautiful poems about and for our moms. Nothing can replace a good mother in our lives, and we often want to share words of appreciation with the woman who raised us and who shares a special place in our hearts. A mother’s love profoundly influences her child’s development which is why we owe so much to these beautiful women. Sadly, they are not always with us, but their memory will be.
Poem Topics Related to Mother
Read wonderful mother poetry on the following sub-topics:
child, daughter, love, mothers day, son,
and more.
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The Dilettante Diaries: All Roads Lead Home
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Leanne Lovejoy-Burton
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mother, daughter, freedom, journey, love,
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THE SPIRIT OF HER MOM
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Jim Yerman
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love, mother, mother daughter,
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Unsung Laborers Day Of Humanity
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Eric Nelson Manley Shelman
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mother, appreciation, birth, celebration, child,
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What Is A Mother
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Ida Campbell
| Rhyme |
mother, appreciation, assonance, care, children,
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In a Heartbeat
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Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
| Free verse |
mother daughter,
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A follow-up question i asked of a man who despises women
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Word Awl
| I do not know? |
mother, allusion, america, angel, anger,
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brown eyes happy tears
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P.S. AWTRY
| Senryu |
mother,
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Standing Here
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Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
| Rhyme |
mother daughter,
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Stirring Crockery
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Owen Yeates
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mother son,
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The Bicycle
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Marc Acrich
| Prose |
mother son,
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Leanne Diary
by Christopher Flaherty
The Constant Matriarch ,
As referenced by Leanne's Diary
Keep the Home Fires Burning
And Mother will take care of the rest
Love is Simple in Principle
Knowing...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mother daughter,
What If
by Dear Heart a.k.a. Broken Wings
What If,
my sister Suzanne had not died on that snowy winter day
it was so pretty with the snow falling down and the icicles on trees
I...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
baby, death, father, grandmother,
Jane Wears the Trousers
by Kevin Shaw
Jane Wears the Trousers
Have you ever seen Jane in a dress?
She wears the trousers I should guess.
Power suit of grey looks to impress,
Walk of authority,...
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Monorhyme |
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Categories:
mother, tribute, woman,
Mother
by Lifes Tapestry
Perhaps the fear will pass,
they say time heals all wounds,
but wounds of the heart?
Assurance is not enough,
though some find happiness in delusion.
When reality...
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Free verse |
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mother,
Remembering What I Long to Forget
by CayCay Jennings
Tolerant coaxing aided my first hundred starts
to rescue you from your own negative dark.
I failed and failed while you grew more hurdles.
My sanity got trapped...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mother, anger, anxiety, change, character,
IT'S NOT FAIR
by Line Gauthier
I miss you Mamma
I miss the days when you were well
And not so tired Mamma
You’d make my sandwiches and laugh
And see me off to...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
angst, god, hope, mother,
Not To Be
by Dedu Son
long haired blue eyed doll
in a shop window displayed
the child yearned for it
the mother noticed
her face showed melancholy
not enough money
the big doll stays put
she took...
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Senryu |
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Categories:
mother daughter, sad,
Cradle of Happiness
by Ipshita Sengupta
A soft toy of flesh and blood
With a cute chubby face and two twinkling eyes
A tiny bundle of world’s greatest treasure
With pink rosy lips, wherein...
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baby, child, mother, woman,
All Life Is Sacred
by Rico Leffanta
Trump disparages Dr. Ford
Claiming "Second Sight" like the Lord
In quite lurid detail
Trump describes a female
His mother was one we're assured....
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Limerick |
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mother, bullying, culture, discrimination, gender,
Who I Would Bring Back
by Michelle Faulkner
Who would I bring back, if I had only one
Perhaps a great leader, Kennedy or Lincoln
Or I could choose a musical icon
Such as John Lennon...
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Couplet |
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memory, mother, nostalgia, woman,
Bobbing Mummy
by Nina Parmenter
If you knock something from the shelf,
No need to pick it up yourself!
Just leave it there upon the floor -
Whatever else is Mummy for?
Bobbing bobbing...
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Categories:
mother, children, family, fun, funny,
Like mother like son
by andrew rogers
I always thought that I was like my dad.
People tell me that I look like him
So, I just suspected that we were similar.
He doesn’t show...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
best friend, family, mother
Precious Life
by Angel Villanueva
Life, unseen, wends a lengthy hall;
It reaches home, behind a wall.
This home, designed to carry life,
Then wraps the gift with a soft shawl.
This gift, a...
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Rubaiyat |
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Categories:
baby, child, life, mother,
The Black Hills wept for Thee
by Quoth TheRaven
The Black Hills wept for Thee
East of the Black Hills of South Dakota,
On the Pine Ridge Reservation,
Live a proud tribe of Oglala Lakota.
Part...
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Ballad |
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mother, betrayal, december, fate, loss,
Green Dream Whispering
by Gerald Dillenbeck
To avoid unnecessary oppressor and victim stuckness
in reiteratively dissonant looping
loopy voices,
To avoid interior and exterior terror climates
of self and other perpetual Lose to Lose
claustrophobic shut-down...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
childhood, culture, grandmother, green,
I Want Her Back
by Subimal Sinha-Roy
I didn’t know why the sky suddenly fell
but in the surging storm we got uprooted,
like the floating logs of wood we drifted
until she found a...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mother, death, for her, home,
It's Your Upper Lip
by Mark Toney
When I was just a lad
When smelling something bad
I'd go right to my mother
"Mom, I hate to be a bother...
But tell me please what is...
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Categories:
mother, child, fun, giggle, humorous,
The grass
by Valentin Busuioc
mother
I never crouched better
to your chest
like now
when you are
grass
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Free verse |
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Categories:
death, missing you, mother,
Last supper
by Valentin Busuioc
in this restaurant
I’ve never been
your hands are drier than mine
in your eyes the streets get lost forever
in mine they still have life
the brighter your face...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
mother, bird, flying, how i
THE EDGE OF NIGHT
by Line Gauthier
Mom had six children
when she moved far from the nest
to a remote area without relatives or friends
Her lifestyle suddenly changed
from urban to rustic setting
Playing the...
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Free verse |
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Categories:
change, day, life, mother,