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A Dying Rose
by Gerardo L. Angulo

Mother, since you left this world
my life has not been the same
like a dying rose
that has not felt sun nor rain
My heart longs for healing
for sadness seems to be winning
Like a dying rose
happiness has become a stranger
to my soul
Like a dying rose

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Presents From My Aunts In Pakistan
by Moniza Alvi

They sent me a salwar kameez
      &nb sp;     peacock-blue,
                 & nbsp; and another
   glistening like an orange split open,
embossed slippers, gold and black
      &nbs p;     points curling.
   Candy-striped glass bangles
      &n bsp;     snapped, drew blood.
   Like at school, fashions changed
      &n bsp;     in Pakistan -

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Woodchucks
by Maxine Kumin

Gassing the woodchucks didn't turn out right.
The knockout bomb from the Feed and Grain Exchange
was featured as merciful, quick at the bone
and the case we had against them was airtight,
both exits shoehorned shut with puddingstone,
but they had a sub-sub-basement out of range.

Next morning they turned up again, no worse
for the cyanide than we for our cigarettes
and state-store Scotch, all of us up to scratch.

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Curriculum Vitae
by Lisel Mueller

1992

1) I was born in a Free City, near the North Sea.

2) In the year of my birth, money was shredded into
confetti. A loaf of bread cost a million marks. Of
course I do not remember this.

3) Parents and grandparents hovered around me. The
world I lived in had a soft voice and no claws.

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Manuelzinho
by Elizabeth Bishop

Half squatter, half tenant (no rent)—
a sort of inheritance; white,
in your thirties now, and supposed
to supply me with vegetables,
but you don't; or you won't; or you can't
get the idea through your brain—
the world's worst gardener since Cain.
Titled above me, your gardens
ravish my eyes. You edge
the beds of silver cabbages

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Recent Mother Poems
why wolves come in packs , why my mom left my dad
by Ella Sophia

it never came with conclusion as how the night took its time to raise a sunshine
to survive in the wild makes no sense for such a young wolf
to be part of a pack , to learn how to defend , avoid danger , hunt — crushed hares , bison , and moose
much more to be close to them all
blood dripping all the way to my mom’s home

at heightened peril of death , all lone and numb from hunger
wandering through unknown terrain , limping , some bones broken
no such scheme in mind for how the high spirits turned way upside down
to ponder why it unfolded just as it did

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Taming the Nightmare
by Evelyn Judy Buehler

April Brooks was four years old, prattling a blue streak, like comets;
Or backwards walking time, seizing swiftly, days of golden promise.

April lived with parents and older sister, in the sunshine of a valley;
And petals wore dew pearls and fragrance, all along the green alley.

April and sister, Dawn, loved horses, though still too young to ride;
But, they adored fairy-tales about them, like lilac, at rose's bedside.

Fuchsia was the color of fall skies, and the fun year was fading away,

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Mystic
by CK Wendell

My children tell me of a mystic
Living by the lake
In a green and purple house
Surrounded by gardens of giant flowers
Who takes small dreamers
On uncharted adventures where
They choose their directions and she
Finds their way

My children tell me

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My Mother’s Tomb
by Jeffrey Pipes Guice

Here I sit
On my mother’s tomb
It was only yesterday
I was in her womb

She was here
One minute
And then
She was gone
It is here

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The idle child
by Sanjana N J

Gratitude knots in my throat.
I am surrounded by the bounty of her sacrifices, yet I let it slip through my fingers.
My heart aches with the weight of her expectations, each one a burden I fail to shoulder.

I am the idle child in the garden of plenty, the squanderer of every gift bestowed upon me.

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  • Eugene Field
    Eugene Field (35 poems about Mother)
    2 September 1850 - 4 November 1895 / St Louis / Missouri / United States
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    Rabindranath Tagore (33 poems about Mother)
    Gurudev] (7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941 / Calcutta (Kolkata), Bengal Presidency / British India
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    Homer (30 poems about Mother)
    Disputed - c 850 B.C.E. / Disputed
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    Julia Ann Moore (17 poems about Mother)
    Julia A Moore] (1847-1920 / United States
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    Frances Ellen Wat Harper (14 poems about Mother)
    24 September 1825 – 22 February 1911 / Baltimore, Maryland
  • Gerard Manley Hopkins
    Gerard Manley Hopkins (13 poems about Mother)
    28 July 1844 – 8 June 1889 / Stratford, Essex
  • Marriott Edgar
    Marriott Edgar (10 poems about Mother)
    1880 - 1951 / Kirkcudbright / Scotland
  •  Ovid
    Ovid (10 poems about Mother)
    43 BCE - 17 CE / Rome / Italy
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    Augusta Davies Webster (10 poems about Mother)
    30 January 1837 - 5 September 1894 / Dorset, England
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    Russell Edson (8 poems about Mother)
    1935 - 2014 / Connecticut, United States
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