So, my mom’s birthday is Friday the 28th. I was hoping to be able to give her the poem that I started writing for her last year. Of course, life is so busy that I haven’t worked on it more than a dozen times or so, and when I have, often nothing good has come of it.
Writing a poem to my mother, about my mother is one of the more challenging writing activities I’ve attempted. It’s like the “big” emotion people and issues are the most impossible to address. I’ve managed writing “partials” when I’m in the right mental place and with the right prompts, but I haven’t been so successful with getting past the partial. I have written a couple of poems relating to my daughter, but only with a narrow focus.
Since my relationship with Mom has been difficult in many ways over the years, the rainbow of emotions there gets in the way when I’m writing. Over the last couple of years, with age and cancer as reminders to me that she won’t be around forever, I’ve been pushing myself to remember the good, to develop a new relationship with her, and to re-discover who she is. I guess, I’m wanting this poem to express some of what I’ve remembered and learned in that time.
I’m open to feedback if anyone has some for me.
Today ~ Mother
Today
I dream for you
Warm sun kisses
upon the freckles of your face
Dappled dances through your leaves
Mother, Tree of Life
Today
I wish for you
Calm breeze caresses
whispers to your heart
grateful seeds of Love
From all beneath your branches
Today
I grow for you
Rounds in family voices
harmonies of friends
loved ones nurtured, soothed
Now our arms raised in blessing
Today
I sing for you
Odes of “Edelweiss”
“Blue Skies” sonnets
“Hush-a-Bye” ballads
Ageless echoes of Mother’s love
Today
I fly with you
Vibrant hued spirits
soar through the canopy
arias of hosanna rise to heaven
Today, my Mother, I thank you.
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