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Child Mother Poems

These Child Mother poems are examples of Mother poems about Child. These are the best examples of Mother Child poems written by international poets.


my mother thought me poetry unfortunately, fortunately
with less words
risen are the river's current
melody in minnow's swimming
hollow that's able to hallow
climax of a cliche film 
xerophile for desert's scene...

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Categories: mother, beauty, child,



Premium Member Mama Hiku
down on the floor
hands and feet would lift me ~
i was a plane

blew up balloons
she made me animals ~
i was dazzled

taught me stitches
loved skilled embroidery...

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Categories: mother, appreciation, books, child, feelings,

Premium Member ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE
ECHOES PIERCE THE SILENCE*
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I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she had used—the scissors, the darning egg, the...

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Categories: 12th grade, mother, mother

Sleep Well Mama
Mama, why is it that you can't sleep well?
Do you have insomnia coming on?
What's keeping you up even though you're tired?
Your husband who watches television...

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Categories: good night, mother,

Premium Member The Hands That Lit Eternity
her hands
did not turn on light bulbs.
they were light bulbs,
they were clay vessels through which flowed
a light tired from too much godliness.

when she entered the...

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Categories: meaningful, mother son,



Gaza's Mothers

In Gaza, the mothers don’t sleep, waiting in darkness, listening to the sky that’s been raining death  -- nothing to inspire a fairy-tale to...

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Categories: mother,

Premium Member Carmen
Let me tell you a story,
that took place on a night in Amsterdam,
where the hotel lights
seemed to flicker in my native tongue.

I was beside a...

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Categories: mother son, wisdom,

Limericks X
Limericks X

This is a more serious limerick:

The Abandoned Child’s Complaint
by Michael R. Burch

I hoped you might have loved me,
but you pushed me out to sea
...

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Categories: mother, baby, child, child abuse,

Mother and Child: Part-II
the little child with innocence in his eyes
trying to calm his mother down
as tears keep rolling down her eyes
he continues his search for food in...

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Categories: mother, natural disasters, nature,

Mother and Child: Part-I
she kept on trying to calm her child down
crossing the floodwaters to reach the shore
while she held him high above her head
she almost drowned in...

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Categories: mother, natural disasters, nature,

Premium Member Before my mom gave me birth
I’ve known my mother 
since before I had a shape,
when my soul — a seed of silent stars,
was still searching for its furrow.

I was an...

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Categories: mother, absence, child, death, family,

Premium Member Both Sides Now
MY ADDED VERSUS:
Bows on solemn flower blooms
and scented layers of flared perfume
flow down rows of headstones and tombs.
I've looked at death that way.
			
But now I...

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Categories: mother, baby, cry, death, emotions,

Premium Member THOSE WE LOVE
Poem submitted to "Those We Love Poetry Contest," Mystic Rose, sponsor

ECHOES
I open the sewing basket, letting my eyes and hands run over the tools she...

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Categories: 12th grade, love, mother,

Premium Member Spring
I felt like it was coming,
not through buds breaking open,
but through a softness in the air,
like a soft napkin
forgotten on the chest
of an old icon.

No...

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Categories: mother, spring,

Dear Mother
For Dwina, in celebration of Talia's
graduation from high school.

Dear mother, warm around me--
tender home for just this while;
so close together, you and I
I feel good...

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Categories: mother, baby, birth, celebration, child,


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