Short Mother Son Poems

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Premium Member Mother Russia

Russian spy Boris Badenov
Met CIA double agent Gregory Gudenov
   They winked at each other
   ~ They had the same mother
Form: Clerihew


Untitled #202 / Squirrel

 Why did you have to do that?”
“Do what?”
“Run over that [dead] squirrel?”
“Because I’m heartless”
“What?”
”Huh?”

Premium Member The Greatest Love on Earth

       No greater love than a mother’s 
           for her children

        ‘til the world saw a father’s for his son
Form: Rhyme

Lips That Quiver

Quiet baby 
wakes and wants thirst quenched.
     That why his lips quiver?

04/06/2017

For Broken Wing's Form Q contest.

Mom's Day

With gentlest care
as cool mountain air,
she heals the wounded 
scars of why I am.
Mother's whisper, 
soul's soothing balm.


Premium Member Lapped Child

Tears stained her good skirt. Lapped child, he’s fair hurt. Kissed knee with first aid. Soft wiped the laud dirt.
Form: Rubaiyat

Premium Member Sunday visit

She doesn't remember her son.
She lives somewhere in the distant past.
She's happy, that's what counts.



AP: 2nd place 2026
Form: Other

Premium Member One Tough Goodbye


Poor child crying his eyes out;
Clutching on with vice-like grip...
Peeling her child off her legs;
Sad mom heads to work.
Form: Dodoitsu

Premium Member hanks

once an old con bob hanks

greeted tellers with thanks

please call me dom

named for my mom

then thieved his way through banks.
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Moms and Daughters-In-Law

Mom’s words cut like a knife, honed razor sharp
Which shattered my new wife
Mom now, after years of strife
Says I married up in life!
© Mark Toney  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Englyn

The Mothers of War

the mothers of war

gave their golden wedding rings

and sometimes a son

date: 1/1/20
contest: Senryu on Mother
sponsor: Jenish Samodas
© Meru Groen  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Senryu

Premium Member pamela bass

mothers day pilot pam bass

feeling a bit bored and crass

flew east in a wink

right into the drink

losing her sons boarding pass.
Form: Limerick

Lonliness

In the dark I am alone
Without my wife, without my son
I wish to die but then I cry
I cry, cry and cry
Till the tears in my eyes all run dry
© Steve Wood  Create an image from this poem.
Form: Rhyme

Mother’s Nest

Feeling warm,
Mommy’s cold,
sense of duty,
Mommy stays,
First of four clouds,
She clears the sky,
So light can shine,
On the cloud she raised.
Form:

Premium Member Points That Count

Wow! What a great move!
He fakes them out of their shoes!
Fifty points tonight...
Yeah, my son, 'the superstar'
~ Wish he'd treat his mother right
Form: Tanka

Premium Member Pure, Sweet Voices

Pure, sweet voices
in the arms of their mothers

Cheering on Al Sharpton
and Maxine Waters

A charming way to educate
innocent sons and daughters
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member Finding Bliss

Her only son is this remiss in
  that to advice, he won't listen

But her friends say, this find bliss in
  your son cries not when you French-kiss him
Form: Couplet

First Day of School

Teary mom waves ciao.
Through the school's louvre, he shouts,
"I want to go home!"
16/04/21 Ansar
Form: Haiku

Premium Member Tending Mother's Day

Listen to poem:
Mother's
Day
Roses
I
gave
Who
tends
your
grave
but
I

Tell Me It's Not True Ziket

to die I pray is not the end son send me a sign
Written 13th August 2020 Contest Two Line Poem Ziket Sponsor Line Gauthier FIRST PLACE

Premium Member kings and queens

We are all of us kings and queens
I don't mean in family genes
But: God loves us to smithereens
We're adopted to royal means
(Jesus is King, Mary the Queen)
Form: Rhyme

Premium Member His Mother Would Not Speak to Him

dumped like trash
feeling like garbage
his wives had never understood him
he wished now he had treated his mother better
she would not pick up the phone for him

Premium Member King Arrives

King arrives
Bawling
Squalling

Swift smack
On bottom 

Really mad now
Everyone is smiling
Except King

This world
Is a shocker
Two seconds 
Out of womb

The World Is Unkind For Jonah

Too often, I find, you’ve fallen behind
Brightly, you shine, at end of the line
More passion than most
Intensely you boast 
Embrace your design, in a world, unkind
Form: Limerick

Premium Member Some Called Them Desperados

some called them desperadoes
their feats were written up in dime novels
bankers dreaded the day they would show up
I called them sons, they were sweet babies to me.

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