get your poem on #26

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33 Responses to “get your poem on #26”

  1. 1 Crafty Green Poet

    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!

  2. 2 AnthonyNorth

    You’ll find mine in this post:

    How To Doodle

    Enjoy.

  3. 3 gautami tripathy

    A different kind of mom?

    child to love?

  4. 4 Regina Clare Jane

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

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

  5. 5 totomai
  6. 6 Katherine

    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

  7. 7 Christina

    Elements of Motherhood

    I hope you enjoy it!
    Christrina

  8. 8 Tiel Aisha Ansari

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

  9. 9 art predator

    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

  10. 10 art predator

    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…

  11. 11 Beloved Dreamer-Melanie

    Late but here is mine:

    my Mother

  12. 12 Christine

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

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

  13. 13 Read Write Poem

    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.

  14. 14 Ceridwen

    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/

  15. 15 Ceridwen

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

  16. 16 poetmouse
  17. 17 ...deb

    Here’s mine, a prose poem about Mother.

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

  18. 18 Jo

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

    And here’s mine, tongue in cheek.

  19. 19 sister AE

    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

  20. 20 Just someone
  21. 21 jan
  22. 22 carolee

    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.

  23. 23 jillypoet
  24. 24 jan

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

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

  25. 25 Felicity

    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

  26. 26 Rob Kistner

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

    Motherless

  27. 27 Jennifer

    I wrote about becoming a mother.

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

  28. 28 Rachel

    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

  29. 29 mary

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

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

  30. 30 jan

    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

  31. 31 One More Believer

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

  32. 32 Wine-dark Sea
  33. 33 the secret of durable pigments

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


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