Ocean Mother Daughter Poems

I love you, teddy bear. 

Mischievous and carefree 
By Michelle Morris
05/03/2023

There are these pictures in my mind
Of when you were a little kid
Elation and giggles...

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I don't know from where to start
My feelings cannot be expressed in words
An endless number of thank you's
would be less to show my gratefulness
And I...

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“Within”



Shadow dreams 
down silent roads 
never taken 
less than travelled, 
the winter breeze 
of the world within,
pulls out the hidden
message planted, 
within

the quickening
attempts slow 
anchoring,
the...

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"Open Oceans"



Kneeling on pearls
wisdom preys

praying
preying

hungry hearts
count the days 

wasting away
in all that preying 

for prayers 
to be answered

children become
strangers

reading 
strange words

finding 
themselves puzzled

genuflecting to a...

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Where are you today
It's been months since I've heard you
I feel like the world sucked out all my blood
all of the world's color, now dull...

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No rising fiery ball only thunder 
Such the wonder 
On this Mother’s Day 
Does anyone know what to say? 
Rain is starting to fall
Sending a...

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“Your Finest Hour”



pour a paint can
from isolation
a heart torn
blood spills Red 
on the crushed White empty now
absorbed in the mother vein

Stop.

a tall tree, Green, waiting,...

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I never would've 
known that as a daughter
of a mother, 
we can make a lifetime bond within our hearts.

A mother's love,
is a love that you...

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I imagine her pearl-pink clouds crashed into gray and the wind 
grew too stiff, blowing leaves into sparring wars over a dull earth. 
I imagine...

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Dearly Beloved



The hands that cradle and rock little lambs to sheep

With you 
The sky is blue 
The grass is green

With you, the sun shines in...

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My heart is full of unbounded love
Bleeding sacrifice and pain 
Spilling over with devotion
pouring down like monsoon rain

With the vastness of the ocean 
It beats...

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"Diamond Light"



Downy soft 
Love Light sharply glistens diamond prisms
from rainbow's seven colours, in each colour a meaning
imparts a visitation message from fallen angel off a...

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"My Beautiful Dreamer"


My Beautiful Dreamer
“thinks she goes unseen”, Her.
she’s a million miles away
lost in the Lilacs and
Chantilly Lace of 
her beautiful dream, her.

My Beautiful Dreamer
dreaming...

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"My Daughter My Nation"



The climate of Georgia
is diverse, 
considering the nation’s
small size.

She walks with her head 
held high, 
ultra dignified
My daughter,
whom I love “Most".

I am...

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"Snapdragons and Dandy Lions (Part 1)"


“Don’t move,” she smiled gently,
“stay there, stop fidgeting, let me put these in your hair”,
I was sitting cross-legged 
on the...

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