These are poems about family, poems about sons, and poems about their mothers and fathers.
Mother’s Smile
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch,
and my wife, Elizabeth Harris Burch
......
You teach your girls
how to be prim and proper
You prepare your daughters
how to be good wives
telling them
"You are nothing without a man"
remember
to teach your sons
how to be men indeed
remember to teach them
......
These are poems about family, poems about sons, and poems about their mothers and fathers.
Mother’s Smile
by Michael R. Burch
for my mother, Christine Ena Burch,
and my wife, Elizabeth Harris Burch
......
You teach your girls
how to be prim and proper
You prepare your daughters
how to be good wives
telling them
"You are nothing without a man"
remember
to teach your sons
how to be men indeed
remember to teach them
......