Mother
by Shahida Latif
Mother: bounteous blessing,
A sheltering shield, fragrant flower,
Gurgling founting fountain of love,
Incarnated patience and sacrifice;
She cares least,
For her own appetite and dress,
When her own children remain,
Unfed, undressed.
She tosses on the bed,
When they are ill disposed,
She bleeds, receives pain,
When they are hit or tumbling fall.
She wraps them in her grace,
When calamities to them encroach.
Fortunate are those who find her,
In her dotage and patiently,
Serve, obey and adore,
And get her good wishes,
Being murmured upon her lips,
When she departs to the world next.
End of the poem
15 random poems
- Extempore Reply to an Invitation by Robert Burns
- Robert Burns: A Tippling Ballad: On the Duke of Brunswick’s Breaking up his Camp, and the defeat of the Austrians, by Dumourier, November 1792.
- Владимир Маяковский – В Советской России не может быть никакого царя… (Главполитпросвет №361)
- Ольга Берггольц – Полуночная
- Dans les filets de midi by Martine Morillon-Carreau
- Enter This Deserted House by Shel Silverstein
- The Changeling by Russell Edson
- The Song of the Little Hunter by Rudyard Kipling
- The Poet’s Grave by Nijole Miliauskaite
- Жан де Лафонтен – Мужчина средних лет и его две Возлюбленные
- To Sayf Al Dawla
- Villanelle: Oscar Victorius by T. Wignesan
- Robert Burns: The Winter It Is Past:
- On A Spaniel, Called Beau, Killing A Young Bird by William Cowper
- Panic
Some external links:
Duckduckgo.com – the alternative in the US
Quant.com – a search engine from France, and also an alternative, at least for Europe
Yandex – the Russian search engine (it’s probably the best search engine for image searches).
