Mother Personification Poems

Dear Mom and Dad, it's me, your son;
Out of my brothers, I'm the handsome one.
You've been gone for quite a while;
I'm glad you raised me...

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Gray matter subjected to accumulate
incessant overall slack heavily larded
earlier in marriage, viz Zison clan
evicted Harris family,
whose hardship unemployment did exacerbate,
neither me nor birth mother worked

both...

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Do not skulk, my mother said, sternly, meanly, and often.
How could I not? I asked myself. We are skulking birds, are we not?
Your bill is...

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When I am on the hunt if I want fresh
I choose young, it is always fresher meat.
Young bunnies, squirrels, rats, moles, voles.
Tastier, and less of...

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Of My Love For You
I remember the first time I'd heard your voice. You had just dropped off a another dude, seen the good bye...

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Hurtling clumsily through dark layers of sky --
   Unwelcome residue of engorged, menacing clouds --
Gathering momentum, bulking up as they descend
  ...

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          I have a dream often that I am a baby African forest elephant, 
I keep...

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I wish that nightmares only happened in dreams
Or lives that were so tightly joined together, didn't burst at the seams
I wish that I could find...

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I know that I am dying, I am fading fast,
     my life is almost over, by tomorrow I will be dead;
and...

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They scoop me up, I smell so good.  Others come, and stand in line. People shifting, impatiently.
They pay money, as cash registers sing happily....

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~ Wet pawprints trail across the rocks ~ 
                ...

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The lupus was a she 
howling at an orange winter moon
baying for a he
with pups yelping unison in tune.

“Where could Daddy be?”
They question Mother as...

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What I’ve learned from my mother - Enjoy the moment, be easy, treat people well and multiply.

What I’ve learned from my father - Dance like...

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Oh Nous,*

You divine faculty of perception

Mother of conception

Source of understanding

Gate of wisdom

Without your presence deaf and blind I would be

Perpetually oblivious to truth eternal!






© Demetrios...

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I am a sister I am a brother 
I am a father I am a mother 
I am a daughter I am a son 
I...

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After you gave birth to me
I opened my eyes and you were the first person I saw
from that day till forever 
You will always be...

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         You are my children's mawmaw and my mother n law for 19 years now.
  ...

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It was a cold winter day on the Fundy Bay when the wind and the Ocean Raged

You were a child with the sweetest smile who...

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Talking to  Ash

How happy I am to see you 
Bursting buds at last behind,
Stay with me, just one more year, dear Ash,
I know you...

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In the 40's I was black, not even shiny.
And so were my mother, father, and cousins.
In the 60's I came out in all kinds of...

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