Dear Mother, please don’t take away my baby. I’m young, alone, my husband is in jail. But there’s a wonder in what fortune may be Given us, though time its wisdom veil. Please help me be a mother much as you are By being but a mother once removed, As I become the daughter that […]
I wish I was a child again, Nestled in my mother’s arms. I long to hear “It’ll be all right,” As she gently strokes my hair. ‘Cause grownup problems can seem too tough. Hard to face them on my own. I wish I was a child again, Nestled in my mother’s arms.
Children, I come back today To tell you a story of the long dark way That I had to climb, that I had to know In order that the race might live and grow. Look at my face — dark as the night — Yet shining like the sun with love’s true light. I am […]
Goddess supreme, Mother of Dream, by thy ivory doors when thou standest, Who are they then that come down unto men in thy visions that troop, group upon group, down the path of the shadows slanting? Dream after dream, they flash and they gleam with the flame of the stars still around them; Shadows at […]
I do not think of you lying in the wet clay Of a Monaghan graveyard; I see You walking down a lane among the poplars On your way to the station, or happily Going to second Mass on a summer Sunday– You meet me and you say: ‘Don’t forget to see about the cattle–‘ Among […]
Our dear Mothers who once lived and laughed on earth Now dance with angels and sing praises to the Lord. Mothers of my friends– my Mom and Grandma’s too, These precious souls we dearly treasure are missed by me and you. I envision them amid gardens of gold Sharing lifes glories, recounting their blessings with […]
Oh! How sweet is a mother’s love, Starting from the labour room; Always trying the best to let her baby out without any scratch, With tiredness after delivery, still asking after her baby. Always watching over her baby on the cradle bed, When the baby cries, she jumps up from wherever she is, Curdling her […]
It all happened on Friday night I was seating home watching tv I heard a noise it was sort of a screaming noise My mom came to the living room Then it happened She turned into an horrible creature Her eyes turned red Her tooth was pointy she couldn’t stay in the light she drunk […]
