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
- Николай Гумилев – За гробом
- Владимир Британишский – В пыльном, душном, купеческом
- Deeply Morbid by Stevie Smith
- Lament for James, Earl of Glencairn by Robert Burns
- Inflexible As Fate poem – Alfred Austin
- Федор Сваровский – Путешественники во времени 9
- Федор Тютчев – К Н.
- The Old Age Of Queen Maeve by William Butler Yeats
- Ay, workman, make me a dream, by Stephen Crane
- In David’s “Child’s Garden Of Verses” by Sara Teasdale
- Night Shift by Sylvia Plath
- Яков Полонский – Подойди ко мне, старушка
- Владимир Высоцкий – Зарисовка о Ленинграде
- The Skies by William Cullen Bryant
- Алексей Николаевич Толстой – Земля
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Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
