5 Perfect Poems for Mothers Day
Giving Everything for All the Kinds of Mothers
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5 Perfect Poems for Mothers Day
1. “My Mama moved among the days” by Lucille Clifton
My Mama moved among the days
like a dreamwalker in a field;
2. “The Blue Dress” by Saeed Jones
Her blue dress is a silk train is a river
is water seeps into the cobblestone streets of my sleep, is still raining
3. “The courage that my mother had” by Edna St. Vincent Millay
The courage that my mother had
Went with her, and is with her still:
Rock from New England quarried;
Now granite in a granite hill.
4. ”Dear Mama (4)” by Wanda Coleman
when did we become friends?
it happened so gradual i didn't notice
maybe i had to get my run out first
take a big bite of the honky world and choke on it
maybe that's what has to happen with some uppity youngsters
if it happens at all
5. “Mother's Day” by David Young
It burns there in the past, beyond my reach,
a modest lamp.
