get your poem on #26
Published by Blythe May 12th, 2008 in Blythe, Get Your Poem On.
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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…
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~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/