Son Mother Poems

The Great Depression and then the Dust Bowl -
I was but a child as these took their toll
And as the light went from my mother's...

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Dog  Days Of Summer
By: Tom Wright
9/8/98

Intense heat,
causing sparsely foliated trees
to prematurely brown.
Hot southerly breeze
burning at my nostrils
and Mother saying,
son, don't pick.
A five cent Nehi...

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mother-
i know now
that you made me the star
and you the stripe
as i once again
smell the smoke that lit up each morning
after the salt and pepper...

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His words cut deep like a knife,
Last night, it was as if all the unknown of the world pressed upon her gloomy soul,
His last punches...

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People like spokes of a wheel
Streaming in the church on a Sunday morning hill;
The preacher talks of the prodigal son,
While the gathering ends in a...

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Heartfelt uterus patter
expectant mother feels her babe
exuding ultimate power
sensing new life will soon
become the most enthusiastic
exciting appendage to former self
...

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Beholding my special child’s countenance
I’m delighted with his expressive eyes
Praising God midst gratefulness, concealing no lies
Contagious as he smiles with bliss’ radiance.

Arrested by his apprehending...

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Swesish Saga

Gerda left Sweden with an odd liking for turnips.
She claimed hard labor ruined her hands.
She hated her father.
Fritchof walked like an ex-sailor.
He had a...

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You are my beautiful partner
You're such an amazing mum
Our family is so happy
Because we have lots of fun 

This is due to you being so...

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The wife
The mama
The matriarchal educator
She knows the value of school for her children
She is their first teacher, is she not?

Poverty
Submission
Laboring under awful conditions
Being taken advantage...

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There once was a gorgeous hunk, unmarried
Deep in his heart a secret he carried -- 
   No one could guess
   Whom...

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A MOTHERS PLEA
by
JOHN M. ARRIBAS



Oh Battlefield, Take Not My Son from Me
Heed, Cede, Grant a Mothers Anxious Plea
Spare Him, So I May Not Suffer Lifelong...

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My mother-in-law
drinks her morning gin
out of a pint-size Mason jar,
and self-righteously prides herself
for not wasting water by adding any in
and for not pouring or drinking
before...

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I query what was between my mother and I,
was it some missing emotion that I belie?
Something stubborn between a mother and son
what time can't break,...

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Soon you will be 18 
I can imagine the next game play you will try on me on
You try so hard the same game play...

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all grown up with wings
 mom reluctantly lets go...
    a poignant farewell


Writing Challenge 3- March 2019 - Senryu Poetry Contest
Sponsored by: Dear...

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Do the Angels Rock the Babies?

Do the Angels rock the Babies?
Oh, please tell me it is so.
When they're carried through the Cosmos;
To the place where...

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I am named after my grandmother.
Christened Sarah Jane, she was known as Jeanie.
That is often the way where I come from,
that deviation from the written...

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To my dear son Daniel:
STOOD BY ME

My little boy stood in front of me 
shouting, “You’ll have to go through 
me first when he saw...

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Oh my precious son
you mean the world to me
most important thing
forever you will be

such a beautiful little boy
with such a caring heart
healthy as can be
and...

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