Two Poems for Mother's Day

Here are two poems for Mother’s Day. I’m posting them especially for my mother…who turned ninety in February.

My Mother with One of Her Great Grandsons in 2002

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome

by Christina Rossetti

Sonnets are full of love, and this my tome
Has many sonnets: so here now shall be
One sonnet more, a love sonnet, from me
To her whose heart is my heart’s quiet home,
To my first Love, my Mother, on whose knee
I learnt love-lore that is not troublesome;
Whose service is my special dignity,
And she my loadstar while I go and come
And so because you love me, and because
I love you, Mother, I have woven a wreath
Of rhymes wherewith to crown your honored name:
In you not fourscore years can dim the flame
Of love, whose blessed glow transcends the laws
Of time and change and mortal life and death.


Yellow Sonnet
by Paul Zimmer

Zimmer no longer wishes to write
About the dimming of his lights,
Recounting all his small terrors.
Instead he tells of brilliance,
Walking home from first grade
In springtime, light descending
To hold itself and dazzle him
In an outburst of dandelions.

You can read the rest of the poem here.


Happy Mother’s Day!


At Blue Rose Girls, I also have some special poems for Mother’s Day.

Wrter2b has the Poetry Friday Roundup.