A Mother's Love
There are times when only a mother's love
Can understand our tears,
Can soothe our disappoints
And calm all of our fears.
There are times when only a mother's love
Can share the joy we feel
When something we've dreamed about
Quite suddenly is real.
There are times when only a mother's faith
Can help us on life's way
And inspire in us the confidence
We need from day to day.
For a mother's heart and a mother's faith
And a mother's steadfast love
Were fashioned by the angels
And sent from God above.
--Author Unknown
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Miracles Are Mirrors of Your Love source
Miracles are mirrors of your love
Open as spring windows to the breeze.
The child will in time a sailor prove,
Holding course as wind and will might please.
Eventually, what is left is beauty,
Resonant with what was never sung
'Twixt the wonder and the sense of duty,
Salient as a word on silence hung.
Dear as life is, there is something dearer,
A truth that near dissolves as we draw nearer,
Yet is what is once tales of time are wrung.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
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Mother of the Year Is an Occasion
Mother of the Year is an occasion
On which all mothers can receive their due.
The chosen one becomes a celebration,
Happily, of what we always knew.
Each generation finds its way to love,
Returning to the home within the heart,
Offering the next a model of
Fierce passion to be whole by being part.
To you, then, go the laurels of the day,
Hard earned through many hours of sacrifice,
Each danced with all the wisdom of the way
Yet known to those who do not ask the price.
Even in the ardent grip of grace,
Alive with love, you know the odds you face,
Reaching through your joys towards paradise.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
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Mothers Are as Total as the Sky
Mothers are as total as the sky;
Older than the earth, and more enduring.
They're rooted in our hearts like ancient trees,
Halfway down to seething lava seas;
Emblazoned on our sail, and on our mooring.
Returning home, we dwell within their sigh:
So maddening, so rich, so reassuring.
Copyright by
Nicholas Gordon
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To Mother
You painted no Madonnas
On chapel walls in Rome,
But with a touch diviner
You lived one in your home.
You wrote no lofty poems
That critics counted art,
But with a nobler vision
You lived them in your heart.
You carved no shapeless marble
To some high-souled design,
But with a finer sculpture
You shaped this soul of mine.
You built no great cathedrals
That centuries applaud,
But with a grace exquisite
Your life cathedraled God.
Had I the gift of Raphael,
Or Michelangelo,
Oh, what a rare Madonna
My mother's life would show!
--Thomas W. Fessenden
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"To My Mom with Love"
Mom, you mean the world to me!
You taught me things and than set me free.
You have kissed away my tears at night.
You have hugged me with all your might.
You have told me when I was wrong and you were right.
But you know me, I wasn't going to lose that fight.
You showed me a love that was like no other.
Now I understand what it means to be a MOTHER.
Happy Mother's Day Mom!!!!
Author: Melissa Chabino
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"More Than A Mother"
When God set the world in place, when He hung the stars up in space,
when He made the land and the sea, then He made you and me.
He sat back and saw that was good, He saw things to be as they should.
Just one more blessing He had in store; He created a mother,
but whatever for?
He knew a mother would have a special place to shine
His reflection on her child's face.
A mother will walk the extra mile just to see her children smile.
She'll work her fingers to the bone to make a house into a home.
A mother is there to teach and guide, a mother will stay right bu your side.
She'll be there through your pain and strife, she'll stay constant in your life.
A mother will lend a helping hand until you have the strength to stand.
She'll pick you up when you are down,
when you need a friend she'll stick around.
A mother is one who listens well, will keep her word; will never tell.
A mother never pokes or pries but stands quietly by your side,
giving you the strength you need, encouraging you to succeed.
A mother is one who can be strong when you need someone to lean on.
You're more than a mother to me; a reflection of Him in your face I see,
a love that knows no boundaries.
I'm glad that you chose to be all this and more to me.
You share a love that knows no end, you're more than my mother,
you are my friend.
Author: Kari Keshmiry
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"in memory of my mother"
my mother was very young
when she married and started a family,
she was kept very busy raising
my two sisters and me.
she raised a huge garden
planting corn and peas in a row,
then came tomatoes and cucumbers
lots of veggies to hoe.
she milked our huge black cow
every morning and night,
she was up and working
just at the beginning of daylight.
my mother sewed and made our clothes
canned veggies and made soap,
she washed on a washboard
pulled water from a well by a rope.
mother never complained as she hung her wash
on a clothesline in the yard,
she cooked us delicious meals
never saying she was just too tired.
her pies and cakes all were from scratch
the chocolate icing was so good,
I have tried to do all she did
but so far it seems I never could.
the dried apples and preserves
sugar cookies and snow-cream,
all these were winter treats
to sample again would be in a dream.
mother has been gone for many years
I miss our time together every day,
If only she could visit again
but she has gone to heaven to stay.
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Author: adine cathey
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You Mom
You taught me to hold
Tears pouring rain
To always be patient in the trial
Prostration and kneeling on the Lord ...
You couplet formed by prayer
Take care of the crime
Sweep me away by the dust
That will make me fall ...
You are an inspiration in life
Leads to sweep the obstacles
With that build confidence
Patience and care to create ...
You are a hero throughout the ages
Sweat makes science
Crying makes light guide
Dusk making a new spirit ...
You set the clouds
Will not disappear by the moon
Your love is eternal
Until later I had a dream in a grave ...
Where you stand
Place last steps
Share Them all miss the place
And a place to complain ...
You (the mother) there is no indelible
By the swift exposure to sea
By the anger of the earth ground
My heart and will always be an integral ...
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M - O - T - H - E - R
"M" is for the million things she gave me,
"O" means only that she's growing old,
"T" is for the tears she shed to save me,
"H" is for her heart of purest gold;
"E" is for her eyes, with love-light shining,
"R" means right, and right she'll always be,
Put them all together, they spell
"MOTHER,"
A word that means the world to me.
by Howard Johnson (c. 1915)
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Only One Mother
Hundreds of stars in the pretty sky,
Hundreds of shells on the shore together,
Hundreds of birds that go singing by,
Hundreds of lambs in the sunny weather.
Hundreds of dewdrops to greet the dawn,
Hundreds of bees in the purple clover,
Hundreds of butterflies on the lawn,
But only one mother the world wide over.
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Wonderful Mother
God made a wonderful mother,
A mother who never grows old;
He made her smile of the sunshine,
And He moulded her heart of pure gold;
In her eyes He placed bright shining stars,
In her cheeks fair roses you see;
God made a wonderful mother,
And He gave that dear mother to me.
Pat O'Reilly
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And Grandma's too...
While we honor all our mothers
with words of love and praise.
While we tell about their goodness
and their kind and loving ways.
We should also think of Grandma,
she's a mother too, you see....
For she mothered my dear mother
as my mother mothers me.
Author Unknown
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Mother's Love
Her love is like
an island in life's ocean,
vast and wide
A peaceful, quiet shelter
From the wind, the rain, the tide.
'Tis bound on the north by Hope,
By Patience on the West,
By tender Counsel on the South
And on the East by Rest.
Above it like a beacon light
Shine Faith, and Truth, and Prayer;
And thro' the changing scenes of life
I find a haven there.
Author Unknown
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