Monday Poetry Train #45
A Mother's Day Musing
by Joy Renee
Have you ever noticed,
while flipping the pages
in a family photo album,
how often
mothers seem to not be
in the picture?
Even though we all know,
if we consider for just
one moment,
that every breath
every bite
and every bright
smile
depends on her
involvement.
Maybe it's because
she was the one
taking the picture
or so busy making
stuff happen
or just
making stuff--
from matching outfits
to fully outfitted
snowmen
from flapper dresses
to wedding dresses
from birthday cakes
to wedding cakes;
picnics,
stage props,
rag curls,
curly tops,
smart bow ties
and...
matching eyes.
There needs to be,
don't you agree,
more than one day
each year when
the one who makes
it all happen,
who makes home
feel like home,
who frames all the pictures
of our earliest
memories,
is given her rightful
place
right in the middle
of the picture?
4 tell me a story:
Wonderful tribute to all mothers of the world. My mom is gonna love this. Thanks for posting this.
Please post it at read write poem. Writing about mothes is their last prompt.
And my post is:
child to love?
This is a great ode to the mother! And you did bring up a lot of stuff that is true!
But I LIKE being not in the pictures!
yep my mom took the pictures
and she didn't like being in them
she really didn't want to tbe there at all actually
are these all images frfrom your life?? wow; some great stories here!
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