A Mother Serves Her Sugar

May 13, 2017

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is motherhood in honor of Mother’s Day, which falls on May 14.

Today’s poem is a Mother’s Day poem about a mother’s need to prepare her child for independence.

I welcome comments on my poems at https://nicholasgordon.blogspot.com.

Yours,

Nick Gordon

A mother serves her sugar with

A bit of peppermint

To clarify the passages

That carry what she meant

When she first set to bear a soul

Quite separate from her own,

Whom she would cherish, yet must teach

To live and die alone.

© by Nicholas Gordon

Hear or watch me recite this poem and listen to the music I chose for it at https://www.poemsforfree.com/amothe.html. For more Mother’s Day poems, go to https://www.poemsforfree.com/mothersdaypoems.html .

This week’s theme: Motherhood

May 8: Maybe There’s a Reason for It All

May 9: Maybe When One Enters the Darkened Room

May 10: Motherhood Is a Generic Term

May 11: Maybe Every Moment’s Meant to Be

May 12: A Mother Casts Her Dreams into the Sea

May 13: A Mother Serves Her Sugar