Mother Child Poems - Poems about Mother Child

Get out of that or I'll skin you alive she would say Me and that dog would head for the woods right away We were not abused Just a saying used Because me and that dog got a hug...Read the rest...

You can never be ready, she said I wasn't what you expected. Listen, No one told me "postpartum depression" Until I saw you in the kitchen With my baby sister at your feet, White hot tears, A savage grief, Out of nowhere. I was...Read the rest...

Some say your words act as a balm A fleet of sweet tidings Sailing into a gray dawn. With white sails riding On the heels of a grand mast That sways without invoking A need for true ballast. It seems as though...Read the rest...

Hear Harry’s hysterical, startling scream. Little spooky spiders made him run to the extreme. It wasn’t a fairytale fantasy dream; the cobwebs created a crazy football team. Mother thought she’d heard their scary scheme, so she planned to question the...Read the rest...

She misses the time before she was a mother, the life she once had now hidden, under cover. Before pasta and paint, and plastic packed lunches replaced lie ins and coffees, and trusting her own hunches. She yearns for...Read the rest...

Coldest day yet, 'fore new bairn was christened, mother's muse foretold as hearth embers failed. Scripture held tight, she quietly listened, as cradled creature withered, weeped, and wailed. What secret kept a mother by proxy, pallid face adorned in...Read the rest...

I was so glad to welcome you And it was such a joy to hold you Never wondered how life could’ve been without you For I wish My womb could never have carried you Feed...Read the rest...

Awake or asleep, I dream poetry. What, how and when to write? I think about it day and night. When I sit deep in my thoughts, Searching for the right words, And when I count the syllables, Using the fingers of...Read the rest...

More precious than pearls are they; Diamonds come not near in value; Their weight impossible to be Measured in carats of gold. Oceans carry not such vast Turbulence… They flow from broken eyes, But stem from a shattered heart: Squeezed and crushed, Beating arrhythmically...Read the rest...

The love of a mother fills your heart with nothing but joy The love of a mother makes you fearless,brave and humble This love is what many say is the most beautiful thing to exist It...Read the rest...

Poor Blue. Written about a visit to the butchers with my mum, in Liverpool, when I was a child Poor Blue To butchers I went With mother to spend Some money on meat for the week For two days a...Read the rest...

Dear mother, I wish I was small again, Like how you wish I was. Maybe then, You’d hold me like you used to....Read the rest...

we share the stars, paths unknown to one another. they call out to us and we remember - we meet ourselves walking together....Read the rest...

In her womb, I laid grew my hands, legs… till I was fully formed. Got out after nine months, laid on her back, In her arms, On her laps… She would snuggle me in her arms and assure me of how...Read the rest...

A pink flower to smell, watch a red ball bounce, see a clown, a puppy to embrace, a mother's smile. A child laughs at each new discovery--all a mystery To see the world through a child's eyes would be...Read the rest...