Miracle Mother Daughter Poems

"Kansas, she says, is the name of the star"
as for my mom's place, it was Mira Mar :)

"When she fell out of Kansas, a miracle...

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In the moment
When she felt utterly hopeless
When there was no other way out
In the moment of distress 
she couldn't keep her wits about

When she tried...

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Before I knew how to spell blue,
When my best dreams were filled with chocolate,
Before I knew that she would be the glue,
That attached my hopes...

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Love is a blessing. 

You're the best answer 
By Michelle Morris
03/03/2023

You're the best answer
To the questions in my world 
I've loved you through lifetimes
My eternal...

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Quiet Bird Songs

Daughter, come home. 
Your mom is calling you. 
She is singing the same song, 
as when you were little. 
She remembers, 
everything. 
She...

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A-tisket, a-tasket
With lots of colours, in your basket.

Paint them to reality, these instruments of joy
A drum, a teddy and every other toy

The sky is the...

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"Backhand"



You have turned me
inside out, cut open
like a tennis ball
I used to beat backhand
along with the racket
hard against the garage wall

To make sense of it...

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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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Dark -thirty

I don't know what time it is. 
I know work ended, 
at least the place I get paid, 
to do the things they need...

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My Best 
"She is a flower..."

Pink roses, 
not the big ones, 
not the small ones, 
not the buds or full blooms. 
No. 
Not one of...

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The Sitter

They rushed me in. 
I had no time to prepare. 
Talk they said. 
Entertain. 
We will not be... long, 
it was a song.

Fear.
My first...

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Home to Rest
(She said, "I love my room." 
The very happy feeling of being home.)

Today, 
my daughter came home. 
She was not crying this time,...

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After Glow

The pumpkin pie is steaming in the oven, 
just exactly right for the evening dessert. 
A sweet remembrance of all things...
that have happened since...

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Master model of me like daughter, 
Other than being a master, also the synonym of incredible, 
The fairy which makes difficulty a silly thing, 
Horrible...

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I stare at my baby’s perfect bald head,
Watching her chest rise and fall,
Her precious lips poised for her next feeding.
I wonder if this is my...

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