Happiness, like Most Things, Comes from Mothers

May 10, 2020

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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 10.

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A Mother’s Day poem about how a mother’s love is the basis for all other love:

Happiness, like most things, comes from mothers.

An amniotic universe is rare.

Paradises aren't found with others,

Perhaps because we must breathe our own air.

Yet even after paradise, we find

Mothers are a bath of warm affection.

Only mothers' love is truly blind

To guarantee all errant souls protection.

However we find love, it can be only

Evanescences of memories

Retained from when we never could be lonely,

'Ere we left our mother's outsized knees.

So good it is to have that happiness

Designed to grace each subsequent caress,

All future love and joy to underlie,

Yearning backwards towards a mother's sigh.

© by Nicholas Gordon

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This week’s theme: Mother’s Day

5/4: Mothers Are the Archetypes of Love

5/5: I Know I’m No Replacement for a Child

5/6: Although a Daughter, I Write This as a Mother

5/7: Daughters-in-Law Are Our Grandchildren’s Mothers

5/8: From the Distance of Our Separation

5/9: Happy First Mother’s Day

5/10: Happiness, like Most Things, Comes from Mothers