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
- Владимир Бенедиктов – Не надо
- Creators by Pawan Kumar
- A Captive Throstle poem – Alfred Austin
- When I am asleep and crumbling in the tomb by Jalal ad-Din Muhammad Rumi
- Эмиль Верхарн – Холод
- Orlando Furioso Canto 21 by Ludovico Ariosto
- Кондратий Рылеев – Мне тошно здесь, как на чужбине
- Альфред де Мюссе – Друзья мои! Когда умру я
- Attempted Assassination of the Queen by William Topaz McGonagall
- The Veairy Veet That I Do Meet by William Barnes
- Dawlish poem – John Betjeman poems | Poems and Poetry
- My Bed is Covered Yellow by Peter Orlovsky
- I Don’t Know If History Repeats Itself by Yehuda Amichai
- Doomes-Day: The Fifth Houre by William Alexander
- Ольга Берггольц – Кирову
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