Tuesday, May 8, 2018

Happy Mother's Day to Childless Mothers

May 9, 2018

Dear Subscriber:

Each week we examine a theme from a variety of points of view. The theme for this week is Mother’s Day, which is celebrated on May 13th.

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A Mother’s Day poem to childless women who stand in for mothers:

Happy Mother’s Day to childless mothers
Attending to the progeny of others,
Perhaps as aunts or stepmothers or friends,
Pursuing as their own another’s ends,
Yearning still for what will never be,
Making fortune of adversity.
Of course, even children of the blood
Take off in time, returning as they would,
Having their own friends and families,
Embracing or neglecting whom they please.
Remember that the past is never past.
‘Mid tidal tumbling are the things that last,
Submerged beneath the restless ebb and flow,
Days of love stored permanently below.
A gift of love can never be in vain,
Yielding memories that life sustain.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day
5/9: Happy Mother’s Day to Childless Mothers

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