My post has a haiku and links to other poems about mothers: http://craftygreenpoet.blogspot.com/2008/05/haiku-mother.html. I look forward to reading everyone else’s poems!

You’ll find mine in this post:

How To Doodle

Enjoy.

A different kind of mom?

child to love?

Some prose today… my struggle with Mother’s Day…

http://reginaclarejane.livejournal.com/64731.html

http://filteredprecipitates.blogspot.com/2008/05/hammock.html

This is a seriously rough draft, more like an idea than a poem yet, but I thought I’d share anyway. Maybe you guys can help me give it some life.

Lies Told To Children

Elements of Motherhood

I hope you enjoy it!
Christrina

I have a Hurricane Lullaby from a mother’s point of view.

i posted a 315 experiment poem about my mother, my mother’s mother, and my mother’s father mother

and since being a mom has changed me soooo radically, i also posted one about mothering

http://artpredator.wordpress.com

oh and if you click on my name (art predator) for some reason you see a picture of my child (have to figure that one out!)

but if you click on the wordpress link, you’ll get to my site…

Late but here is mine:

my Mother

Here’s a poem about a mother on a bad day.

http://mariacristina.wordpress.com/2008/05/09/when-mama-aint-happy/

The spam filter has been quite hungry today…I will check often to pull you out…

Once I de-spam the comment, it puts it back in the queue in the order it was originally posted, so be sure to scan the list if you are visiting folks or you might miss them (such as CGP, poetmouse and totomai).

~Deb.

Here’s mine. Not your typical mother’s day poem, but it is what I was inspired to write based on the prompt:

http://mygorgeoussomewhere.org/2008/05/12/read-write-poem-prompt-26/

Oops, I meant to comment above as Dana, not as Ceridwen.

http://thebadpoetsociety.blogspot.com/2008/05/missing-mom.html
PoetMouse: Mother’s Day

Here’s mine, a prose poem about Mother.

It may take me a while to read everyone…like all week :^}.

http://florescence.wordpress.com/2008/05/12/gingerbread/

And here’s mine, tongue in cheek.

This is a short bit that I felt free to share on the web about my mom:

http://havingwrit.blogspot.com/2008/05/are-you-my-mother.html

For my mother, I penned,
http://monthofapril2008.blogspot.com/2008/05/my-mother.html

http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2007/11/shiny-soft-pink-satin-blankets-my-inner.html

i hesitated all day about posting. but here’s my piece inspired by the prompt. remember, my work is password protected, but i’ll email it to you. let me know if you need it: art [at] polkadotwitch [dot] com. i never change it so once you have it, you can read the current and future poems.

Things My Mother Taught Me

this is a poem i wrote about my daughter, during April’s NaPoWriMo:

http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/04/remember.html

This is not on the prompt. But its a poem I wrote last week and it’s called ‘Wildflowers’.

http://mandatoryhappiness.blogspot.com/2008/05/wildflowers.html

Mother’s Day from the perspective of an abandoned Orphan.

Motherless

I wrote about becoming a mother.

http://www.magpiedays.com/2008/05/water-birth/

This week I posted another in my series of Torah poems:

Caretaker (Behar)
http://velveteenrabbi.blogs.com/blog/2008/05/this-weeks-po-1.html

But I’ll also offer a link to an older poem of mine that fits the theme:

Mother Psalm
http://hugoboy.typepad.com/hugo_schwyzer/2005/11/thursday_short_.html

Here’s my poem called Advice to the Childless Mother.

I didn’t even know this was the prompt this week! Poetic ESP!

I actually have one more that I think is appropriate here, about my son:

http://moodsandmetaphors.blogspot.com/2008/04/i-do-not-wish-to-lose.html

i wasnt gonna, but then again… why not.. it’s all abt writing… getting late, now it’s later… bornlost

Birthed

A lot of poems about this lady, I know… here’s another:
http://ingridsteblea.wordpress.com/poetry/read-write-poem-drafts/