Mother’s Day Poems

Posted On May 13, 2024

Through out my life I have often written a poem for my mother on Mother’s Day. This year was my first Mother’s Day without my mother here on earth. She went to be with Jesus in December last year. It was an emotional day certainly, but not all sad. Much of my memories were very sweet, and remembering how much she liked these poems made me happy.

I decided to share some of these with my readers. For your own encouragement and as a remembrance of my wonderful, Christian, faithful, godly, counter-cultural, revolutionary, gentle, strong, kind, wise and loving mother. (To name a few.)

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Words for Mother

to Mom: from: Jarod (2009)

What words are enough

to express all the stuff

you do for us all each day.

I can’t find expression,

this is my confession,

for the things that I want to say.

For your love is great

and never is late.

You, Mom, are second to none.

But the words that I speak

seem rather weak

to give you the thanks you have won.

So the lines I have spoken

accept as a token

of the love that endures in my heart

for the woman of grace,

with the kind, smiling face,

that raised me right from the start.

“I love you Mother!”

“Like you there’s no other!”

And other such phrases are yours.

Just know when I see you,

or just think about you,

All words in my mind seem too poor.

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A Poem for Mom:

It’s not the daily cleaning,

Or the meals you make each day.

It’s not the songs at bedtime,

Or the pleasant things you say.

It’s not your ready smile

Though it’s bright as noon-day sun.

And it’s not the way you laugh

When, with us, you have some fun.

It’s not the way you listen

And give us all your time,

Or the way your hard work, day by day,

Makes our lives sublime.

No these are not the reasons

Why we love you so,

For our love runs much deeper

Than all these THINGS, you know.

Yes Ma’am, here’s the reason.

Are you ready? Here’s the bomb!

We love for this one reason:

We love you ‘cause you’re MOM!