Mother
by Shahida Latif
Mother: bounteous blessing,
A sheltering shield, fragrant flower,
Gurgling founting fountain of love,
Incarnated patience and sacrifice;
She cares least,
For her own appetite and dress,
When her own children remain,
Unfed, undressed.
She tosses on the bed,
When they are ill disposed,
She bleeds, receives pain,
When they are hit or tumbling fall.
She wraps them in her grace,
When calamities to them encroach.
Fortunate are those who find her,
In her dotage and patiently,
Serve, obey and adore,
And get her good wishes,
Being murmured upon her lips,
When she departs to the world next.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Alba poem – Ezra Pound poems
- Henry Purcell poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- Robert Burns: Epistle To Hugh Parker:
- Rebirth by Rudyard Kipling
- “For where, beneath one’s parent sky” poem – Alfred Austin
- Roar Shack poem – Alice Fulton poems | Poetry Monster
- Mammary Tunes by Mark R Slaughter
- Sonnet 22: My glass shall not persuade me I am old by William Shakespeare
- Colophon poem – Aleister Crowley poems | Poetry Monster
- O Star of France. by Walt Whitman
- May Magnificat poem – Gerard Manley Hopkins poems
- The Invention of Honey by Ricardo Sternberg
- The Alchemist’s Petition by Vachel Lindsay
- An Aquarium poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Past One O’Clock … by Vladimir Mayakovsky
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