Christmas Mum Poems

I felt great calmness and perfect peace. I had the feelings of a poor man who has just come under the protection of the Royal...

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Lights in the sky from red to green
With snow falling it's quite the scene
For serene teens with a Christmas sheen
I mean what a year it...

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Final Lullaby
by Michael R. Burch

for my mother, Christine Ena Burch

Sleep peacefully—for now your suffering’s over.

Sleep peacefully—immune to all distress,
like pebbles unaware of raging waves.

Sleep peacefully—like...

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18 days after I reconnected with mother 
my world now dark with grief and bother 
so I'll walk the path of my sister and brother
and...

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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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DEAR MAMA

We've come to tell you that we never forgot. 
Yeah, ..  We never forgot you. 
In all you went through 
Trying to be...

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Butterfly, My Love

You have hair like golden silk. 
You laugh like clear water running over stones. 
Your eyes, they are the color of the sky,...

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Reindeer wait
   by the pane
I see shapes


A present!
   Santa thinks
I’m asleep 



Smells like mum 
   lent Santa 
her perfume......

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Way back before this baby boomer waz astute
countless decades before aye became long in the tooth,
and also prior tomb ma sporting dentures to boot
fond memories...

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Today I made the cake, 
cradling the bowl.
Arm aching, 
pulling at the fruit. 
Her recipe in front, spidery and sherry stained. 
And she was here.
I...

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At mine she forgot her jacket and her phone,
All over Christmas and New Year she’s been on her own,
I found the phone today,
Returning home after...

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>Overfed
By Stanley Russell Harris
The new mad author.
And Poetry Soup Honourably Mentioned.

Are you feeling overfed?   Do you enjoy stuffing your head?
Actually I meant your...

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We’re gathered listening from the porch, crickets chirp across the meadow,
and frogs emit their deepest croak, over where the water lilies grow,
we glimpse at the...

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The three little pigs came to the ball
Tried to blow the castle down
It didn’t work
It was made of solid gold
So they gave up and sat...

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It was her breast I suckled on
Her lap that I gladly sat upon
T'was her who banished all my fears
The one who wiped away my tears

Taught...

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