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
- “Once we were happy” by Torquato Tasso
- Song by Seamus Heaney
- Who Says Words With My Mouth? by Rumi
- A Girl by Ezra Pound
- Ode. Written On The Blank Page Before Beaumont And Fletcher’s Tragi-Comedy ‘The Fair Maid Of The In poem – John Keats poems
- Dreams Beauty
- When I heard the Learn’d Astronomer. by Walt Whitman
- Robert Burns: The Libeller’s Self-Reproof:
- A Japanese Wood-Carving poem – Amy Lowell poems | Poems and Poetry
- Михаил Кузмин – Три раза я его видел лицом к лицу
- Fool by Rabindranath Tagore
- the-flash-reverses-time.html
- Олег Бундур – Умный кот
- Where Are You?
- The Princess (part 2) poem – Lord Alfred Tennyson poems
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