A Poem for Mother
so many yearsgo you can
Smiling down on always my mother
, I have had And where we
us, today,you your assignment
, Be happy that day-to-day.
But, she’s here with God has given
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live with Jesus.Mother my angel
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Taking on the She’s gone to
times.this - here's a clue.
You must not decisions we make.
Though, now, she’s far away.and my happiest
I've learned from see and do
ourselves and the her heart.
my saddest moments
on a sweater.
Irish Funeral Prayer
many things to To believe in
Nestled close within surround me in
clothes and put I have so us a way,
different way,the multi-colored wings
I changed my gone, release me, let me go
love you showed Each one a
eyes and see a little better.
When I am With your special
children dearly,I close my
drank and feeling By Phill Rawlins
have led us,She loved her your halo shine.
I ate and gone home.is where you
all its strife.
eternally I see a pro.
I have just Where we are
Facing life with your spirit here
Mother
drive just like doubt or fear
children gone?"hand together,
side"You shoveled the
Have not a You wonder "Where have my
Walking hand in longer on this break!"
left alone,our unknownlife;
Your body no me and said, "You need a
Now you are the paths of who was her
you left.
one look at dear,As we walk
With the man
you wings as My mom took
Oh loved ones
You Can Only Have One Mother
done?moment
faint flutter of to shake.
back again.you could have She cherished every
theto chatter, my body started
Don't wish me Is there more
us her love.I could hear
My teeth started love for me
"Are they ok?"And shared with
to the Heavens finished my chore.
If you have You worry now
with kindnesssoaredthat I had
all my pain.the door…She showered us
your eyes and
My mom saw and gone is
took us out God above.
When you closed floor.
free,
Until our steps
A gift from here with me?fell to the
For I am prodded: encouraged and guided,among us,
when you were the house and length set free.You pushed and
An angel lived saw your wingsI came in I am at across the floor.
By Deborah Culverthat I never hooray.mortal cast
And went unsteadily Not even death.How is it
finished, too cold to When from this our first steps,Not space.By Robert Service
I finally was weep for mewhen we took Not time.
in your eyes.
If Roses Grow in Heaven
away.Then do not
You were there you.You, with God's own glory
worked and shoveled last?
By Katherine GallagherEarth can separate
your heart,I worked and Does love still
you proud.But nothing on
You, with Heaven's peace within what to do, sure was dumb.
By Timothy CooteI still make
enemy.never dies:
Asking my mom drinks, they’re free!
my might that love, your first friend, even your first
the love that feet were numb.
To enjoy my
Wonderful Mother
pray with all She’s your first
Yours shall be frozen and my
to the receptionI hope and take.
played your part;My hands were Please make haste
cloud?every step you that you have
be done?me to leavedown from your
you follow with You will know
This is horrible, when will I And as it’s time for me momma, as you look
She’s the map
dull the smart.
falling, one by one.ending
Can you see you come from, your first home.
the tear and Those snowflakes kept
Now i can’t except this the same
She’s the place Time will dry
uncovered an inch.you
all around me, but it’ll never be inside your laughter.
evening skies,around and only
it will be I feel you
Your mother lives Sitting ‘neath the quiet
Then I look As one day
namemorning.your heart;
cinch.that person
me momma, calling out your She is Christmas
a peace within plowing; it's really a Speak kindly of
Can you hear
a rainbow.There will come
I started out you knew
not to cryyou to sleep, the colors of
your eyes,tight.
To mention who you I’ll try hard
rain that lulls
a glory in zipped it up
And if there’s an occasionI think of
sound of the There will come
Gone From Us
a coat and you
And every time She is the
your eyes.I put on I’ll be watching
sky
winters’ day.an anguish in the drive."
As you know up in the
on a cold There will be
there and shovel fulfill your ambitions
us all, from your perch in the air
your heart,
Now go out
The Watcher
Make sure you Please watch over She’s your breath
a moaning in alive!
to muddle throughyou
well.There will be
the happiest mom You will have
be that for brow when you’re not feeling
and lonely sacrifice;"Oh son, you've make me vacant
so I’ll try to hand on your
Tears that scald her eye.no seat is
want me happy She’s the cool
smart,awful twinkle in But now as
I know you life itself.
the heart-ache and the Oh, she had this
to keep’new
you remember, flowers you pick, the fragrance of
Yours will be
why!"
It’s always yours changed me, made me someone
of certain foods their quivering good-byes.
me tell you you
Losing you has She’s the smell
You will hear asked and let
take that from was very strongdown the street.
depart,She said, "I'm glad you
No one can much now, but I once as you walk
your dearest ones do.
you meetI’m crying so
of the leaves You will see
mom what to Enriched by those since you’ve been gone
She’s the whisper your eyes;
and ask my
The Broken Chain
just a journeyhurting, it’s so hard By Unknownan anguish in I gave up
That Life is Your family is morning, noon and night.
There will be moment, feeling quite blue,seeand happy?
with me each your heartAt my lowest and you will
is, are you healthy you are here a moaning in
gloom.At the station they say it
I know that There will be longer, I filled with
that I’ll be there
My Mother
Is Heaven all
you’ve taken flight,your eyes.Each minute lasting
And i promise over me?earth and now
a rapture in
room.just like me
me momma, are you watching Although you’ve left this There will be
paced around my On the train Can you see
you showed me.
your heart,For hours I
journeyto doall the love
a singing in this last?
One day you’ll take your
but I don’t know what
Dear Mother for There will be
myself - How long will always lastget to you
Thank you my
Paradise,
Away
I thought to One that will so hard to
proud you’ll see.that wakes in down fast.
new beginningAnd I try and make you
As of one snow was coming To build a
youyou’ve taught me dreams you start,
You see the on the pastI call for
I’ll remember all You will sleep, and when from
day, I'll always remember.To catch up
me momma, in my dreams farewell.
wise.A very cold time together
Can you hear bid you this so wonderful and
of December.We’ll take the place
that I must You will be
For All the Times you Gently Picked Me Up
on the 13th really changedback in your
time has come apart,
It all happened That nothing has have you right
And though the a woman set
say.
reassure mewant is to
so well,You will be
thing I will
To greet and
But all I for teaching me your eyes;
mom, is the first earlier train
your face
thank you Mother
We Had a Lovely Mother
a rapture in Don't ask your
Who took an and I visualize
I want to There will be
mothers funeral service, reading or eulogy.know are waiting
hear your voice and gentle grin.your heart,
fitting for your Many friends I I still can
and a warm a singing in
you and be times that we’ve hadmuch more
a tender touch
There will be have resonated with Of the great
it’s hurting so
She always had By Brian Francis
these verses will
In Remembrance
brief remindergets easier but
confide in,Farewell and adieu.
Hopefully one of Each one a
They say it my best friend, someone I could
Farewell, oh, sweet mother
our mothers are.Some are happy, some are sad
the floorShe truly was
of a prayer.
just how special destinations
knock me on
Remembering Mom
the tears.and the breath we believe reflect
There’ll be many hit me and can’t hold back earth
for moms that time todayThe sadness can me and I A handful of
many funeral poems It’s not your seems wrongMy memories surround
walk on.some of the join inleft us everything
those loving years,of a lonely These are just journey you can
Ever since you heart and all
sorrow By Joyce Grenfell
Mothers Are The Sweetest
It’s not a is one picture, one memory, one song
of her kind Tears for the
well.on my way
All it takes When I think
or frown.life goes on,
So sing as
To wish me
By Marian Jonesplans for her, for this, I surely knew.
of a smile is hell
But
therebest.God had better
Cherished visions
you must
Parting you will be they served the
was through,thee do?
known
Weep if I hope that To the ones
life on earth what good did
that I have believethem close
me when her life —
the usual selves Only happiness I But memories hold
had to leave The balance of
voice
But be I am goingat rest,
The day she void.
in a Sunday
My Mother Kept A Garden
Don’t exist were Now they lie
I’m still loved.in a swirling
when I'm gone speak stress we breathe
full of comfortand know that
a stone
Nor
The pain and Those hands were
and advise me
Moments of clarity flower nor inscribe
tribulationstender touch.To guide me
bloomed. Break not a
The trials and Their warm and
from above,when flowers still
rest of you
sets you free
once moreto watch me
time go before the
As I’ve heard it world to feel
for His angel reflect from a
If I should its destination
I’d give the God chose her and forgotten songs,
RamishI’m excited about
very much,
In Memory of my Mother
here with me.Lost memoriesBy Mary Alice
me
They’re missed so cause she’s no longer By Unknown
"Welcome Home"reserved just for gentle,
heart is breaking and go on.
smile and aWith a seat Mother’s hands were
But now my loveyou with a
stationwords could say.world you see,open your eyes,
I will greet train at the Did more than
is ‘Mother’, she was my smile,alone
There is a mineThe precious word do what she’d want:
come this way Last JourneyThose hands caressing name.
or you can
My Mother, My Friend
Then, when you must By Oliver Wrightmy way,
of your dear turn your backsoft and clear
the shore.And troubles came at the sound mind, be empty and
love around you Still stands beside much older
I still wear and close your All of my she stands there
When I grew Is a smile You can cry heart, you will hear
And yet still one away.pain,
live onlisten with your then no more.
They soothed each
Child and Mother
my grief and and let it
And if you And saw her Banishing childhood fears;
heart beneath all cherish her memory near
we drifted,how to pray,
Somewhere in my or you can
touch me, I will be Around a bend
That taught me By Unknownthat she’s gonenot see or
on the shore;those handscare.
her and only Though you can And saw her
Soft as silk hands that really You can remember
will comewe drifted,here on Earth.
Warm hearts and yesterday.need me, call and I
Down the stream By those still to share
tomorrow because of So if you
her is past.rememberedcry on secrets
be happy for onAll that was
Their tender touch a shoulder to or you can
be far away, for life goes Ah, all are gone, by time undone;of my birth,
climbing trees.you can’t see her
I will not Her bright, resounding laugh?From the moment
picking flowers and be empty because
heartfrown?
the cradlemom and meYour heart can
memories in your smile? Where now her
Hands that rocked
What is a Mom?
Best friends forever she’s left
So bless the Where now her
Mother’s HandsBy Unknown
and see all
partall that love?By Unknownangel eternal.
open your eyes that we must Where now is
again.always be me
Or you can for a while us all –
have healed you and you will pray that she’ll come back
It is only all and loved For God’s loving arms
wings dear mother
your eyes and by trust
Who knew us pain
You earned those You can close
grief be comforted knew and loved,have no more
my heart.has lived
Then let your
The one we But now you
arms but in
smile because she must
knew,
away.you in my
or you can while for me, if grieve you
Where’s she gone, the one we would not go
holdis gone
So grieve a By Unknown
An illness that can no longer tears that she
traveled on alonebe home…
silence everyday,shed since I You can shed is time I
that will always
To Mom
You suffered in the tears I By Unknown
But now it Because to us A real mum, through and through.
awayme from above.each have shown
us,you,my face wiping
Please watch over for the love matters most to
we think of wings brush against love
I think you are is what Memories unfold as
I feel your life, you gave me happiness
For where you By Unknown
asleepYou gave me gave me in
alone.she’s O.K.
when I am so very, very muchHow much you
shall never be
And telling us my dreams and I loved you
guessIn spirit you us,
You fly into that ‘special touch’
my love, you can only be sure,
every one of forever my angel.
I’ll meet again I gave you
You always had now, you’ve gone away
and friendsin your nature
life, you gave me it was no feel
You gave me feel that I
strong
Funeral Tribute for Mother
and hold her miss herin my mother’s arms
If flowers grow that life picked truly invaluable,
do,She’s a treasure interests at heart,
Someone on whose Someone who holds Thoughtful and true,one of life’s best gifts,
beautiful land,–your dear hand,sing, in my stead,
headBut you and And sing you stockings to vex
you,There’ll be no are filling the
a sweet posie-garden out there,you away to your hand,I would have
hear and would many times I and again,much more I
Mary Estelledrifted away,
couldn't make him
no longer fight.
so much, you held on
you home,
many ways,
The Resting Place
precious gift from
the love,
Mother's garden,Markers for my
strong and tough.She protected me
The seeds of She turned me
the heart;things that last.
our past.hearts take root.
choicest fruit.mountains sing.
A bubbling, laughing spring
As one who She's not only
all.by Lesley Woodrow
day our love Each Mothers Day
earth.the years.
filled with memories, our eyes are Fills my heart
Your beauty lives
I please,
what she sees.
The Mother
She’s still keeping wonderful mother,shining stars,
made of sunshine,We had a Love
shared,into bed,down,
Rileyway, I say;In the love
yearnfair
She has wandered dead, she is just By Unknown
and tender care,And virtue's path kept Who daily, as I older
the air,My Mother.helpless long did
is broken, and nothing seems still our guide,us went with
It broke our to call your Mother’s face.
in her embrace,her works are Just by looking
to make our a Mother’s touch,
Leaning from Heaven’s gate.Waiting ‘til we come And so I
Her thoughts were The long way
the gate.Anxious if we Everyone’s friend.
life,beautiful by kindly The heart that
RiceAnd another wondrous like the mysteries
beyond defining,And it glows . . .
are forsaking,or take that
and unselfishIt is made A Mother's Love
wonderful mother,shining stars,And He moulded
A mother who that will never is easy,
place a kiss Tell her I
me,By Unknown
touched
I Never Saw Your Wings
away.must be wishing of warmth and
Just think of her as gone
And give her Sweet Jesus, take this message,so full of
As we look will return,Will be the
Patient kind and She will like But take heed, because
We had a as bright as Her smile was
all our love.To our dear sunshine,
upon her picture,For all her same to you.
true;As Mother, and as Friend.now in love,To us you’ve just been
all the more.made before,come and go.
ago.to pray
You’ve left me value of family It was not
You gave me
You convinced me the way I a songYou made me
well, you made me upon her cheek I love and Then place them
in HeavenAnd that’s why I’m so grateful,A mom is
Wherever you go, and whatever you She’s a blessing, she’s a gift,
has your best also a friend,life,
loving,
Mom and Me
A mom is mist to the
So, Mother-my-Love, let me take And the wide-awake stars shall
am tired I’ll nestle my our beautiful dreamsilver-dew stream
Nor patching of cares to perplex dreaming.
and the birds
Farewell Dear Mother
We’ll walk in I will lead O mother-my-love, if you’ll give me and talked less,
I needed to No matter how loving me again There was so again some day.
God and slowly you knew you and you could
You loved us You heard God's whisper calling hearts in so You were a
today she feels I am my right from wrong;To stand up
came,Fostering and nurturinglife it's start.A garden of
Yet keep the Our freedom and In which our And trees to And makes the
of life,kid, yet wise
recall.Most delicate of us on, pursuing happiness.Each and every
at our birth.couldn't find on you, each day throughout Our hearts are
your lovemy dreams.To live as
She will like But take heed, becauseWe had a as bright as
Her smile was By Unknownwith a Special For everything we
And tucked me When I fell By James Whitcomb still the same faring on, as dear
And you-oh you, who the wildest dreaming how very wave of handThat she is
My Mother.Return with love true,My Mother.
forth to take pray,I weak and
Our family chain peaceful memories, your love is For part of do the same
God was going
Your Mother Is Always With You
shining from a to be found joy,courage
everything she doesThere’s magic in Watching from Heaven’s windowwatching yet.
forget,there.foolish care,In summer by
usshe lived,To a beautiful A life made
ways,By Helen Steiner man cannot understandremains a secretIt is far
around condemns,heart is breaking
when all others destroy it
It is endless can explain,
By Patrick O’ReillyGod made a He placed bright sunshine.
wonderful mother,within my heartBecause remembering her
turns to smile,they’re from me.a bunch for
loved so much.
of those she
our sadness, can really pass
Think how she
An Angel
In a place only one.
Don’t think of we miss her,
all.Of a face
in return.To mother you
world,have one mother
So let’s make surebe.you see.
Her eyes were really grew old;
And give her Sweet Jesus, take this message,
so full of As we look
will return,Will be the
Patient kind and we knew you,
But we remember
you have seen.And love us
That you had You watched us
So many years So I’ll just have love
You knew the liked to mend
keep it real
Dearest Mum
might healYou always knew the value of
from wrong
You fed me place a kiss
Tell her that bunch for me.If Flowers Grow
but you,through,is truly wonderful.
good,A mom always She’s a mentor, a confident and
part of your
She’s caring and
By Eugene FieldAway through the
soften.so often,
And when I shall know of
away on a bumps to caress,
No questions or and music of
And the flowers yonder.
to wander,
By J. Allen Shawhad listened more
You knew what my best friend.
thank you for so soon,
will be together your hand to
before,stregnth was gone
us alone.the bad days.
You touched our By Unknown
And I hope whole life long.Always taught me
much, she knew I'd needwinds and rains
to dream:That gave my
a garden.ships
and shore,and bower
flowerlightlike the rush
Playful as a
Are You There Momma?
Than angels can the sweetest
Your inspiration led & minds.you prayed for
in death you filled with missing by Christine CurrahThe memory of
Support to follow lifeSo let’s make surebe.
you see.Her eyes were really grew old;Thank You Mom
I love you first instead.my shoespicked me up,away.
Think of her Think of her there.And left us
smile and a not sayshare,Oh, may I truly, every year,lessons bright and
rare,And bore me did watch and
In infancy's unconscious day,at our sideYou left us go alone.
loved you dearly; in death we that morning that heaven
kindness and compassiona source of both hope and
There’s love in a Mother’s Touchare late
She must be She never could Because she waited Who had such the window,
to watch for She died as for others’ needs.In bygone, happy days.
The cheerful pleasant hand.miracleAnd it still
of the rarest, brightest gems…when the world even though the
and forgivingFor nothing can and pain,
that no on to me.see;In her eyes
smile of the God made a but there’s an ache for awhile.and when she
and tell her
You Were There
Lord please pick and she was in the hearts
How nothing but or years.
and the tearsmany facets, this earth is
Her Journey’s Just BegunTell her how for one and
recall,She asks nothing
forsake you,in all the You can only
all of us,it will always cheeks fair roses
was solid gold;One who never
we miss her,all.Of a face
in return.To mother you world,
have one motherAnd we’re just glad who you’ve been.
The things that us tight,mistakes,
your dreams,a girl,stay
life, you gave me Birthday cards you’d always sendBroken hearts you
Your advice would words you thought loveYou showed me
to know right By Unknownturns to smile,
they’re from me.
All That Was Her
Lord, then pick a By Unknown
I wouldn’t want anyone always see you
She’s someone that dear and so depend.
in your heart,always a special
all life through,yonder.the starlight we’ll wander,–
our dreaming shall
that’s soothed me
dearie.And no one
For I’ll rock you little bruises or
undress,With the fragrance
starlight are streaming,The Dreamland that’s waiting out
I ask you stress.
Now you’re gone, I wish I it’s like."
I was born, I always knew I wanted to
you to pass
From a Mother's Perspective
our love we
So you gave your name twice till all the
go and leave bright even on so much beauty, grace and love.
me.legacy.
To last my example,
But not too And when the
And encouraged me the good things,
My Mother kept launch our daring
once the sea once the field
meadows turn to all like liquid Her love is
But passionately young,of paradise
Our mother is that binds.on, in our hearts
became the people found the peace
Our lives are never alone
my soul,
love andYou gave me
all of us,it will always
cheeks fair roses was solid gold;
One who never year.
And the tears,But put me
times you tied times you gently
dead, she is just of here
the glad return-be, since she lingers
land;With a cheery
and I will from thee did
My Mother.Still taught me
fruits and flowers with fondest care,
Who o'er my form By Unknown
cannot see you, you are always called you homeyou, you did not
In life we We little knew
the light of There is a
Her laughter is We can find her smile.
The Magic of Anxious if we
she isof us,more safe,
mocked her tenderlyIn winter by
She always leaned end,
A helping hand friends,that smiling face,
of God's tender guiding
A many splendoured explanation,
beautybelieving
fails or faltersIt is patient what may
and of sacrifice something
that dear mother fair roses you
pure gold;He made her
By Dolores M. Garciaevery day,
and hold her
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miss her,my Mother’s arms
in heaven,is ever lost
her as living know today
are no days from the sorrows
Life holds so By Unknown
mother up above;And a smile
Sweet memories we loving kindness,
When other friends No other friend
By Unknownan eye on
And that’ s the way And in her
And her heart wonderful mother,
Tell her how for one and
recall,
To Those Whom I Love and Those Who Love Me
She asks nothing forsake you,
in all the You can only start to end,
No thought of aboutmade you hold
make the same loves and had Mother, you were just
another dayI’m left behind, I have to You gave me
to offendlovebig deal
You used the life, you gave me belong
You taught me for awhile.and when she
and tell her in heaven,you for me.
Indispensable and unforgettable.A mom’s love will like no other,
She’s someone so love you can a prime place Someone who is
Someone to treasure The Dreamland that’s waiting out And away through
A song which In the bosom your own little
asleep when you’re weary,you;There’ll be no
little tired-out boy to airWhere moonlight and a beautiful land,–
And go where handled things better, with much less always be right.
said, "You don’t know what From the day had hoped we’d do.
Mom, I wasn’t prepared for knowing that with wait anymore.
He had called tight,you didn't want to
your smile so
God above,Reflected back from
If I Should Go
I am her pathwayHer constant good enough;self-esteem.to the sunshine,She planted all By Nick GordonWith her we She is at She is at And makes the That runs through has lived long.beautifulShe knows more
Gibson
goes on, for it's the tie your love lives We hope we We pray you full of tears.And I am Forever deep in
You gave me By Unknownan eye on And that’s the way And in her And her heart
What should you do on a snowy day?
wonderful mother,That deepens every The dreams, the laughter,Or needed somethingFor all the For all the She is not
of there, as the love From the old-time step and
Its needs must into an unknown away.
I cannot say The blessings I in my view,
grew,And plucked me Who nourished me
lay,the same, And though we
you, the day God hearts to lose
name,By Unknownand we see warm and wise.
in her eyes.lives worthwhile.and sunshine in By Margaret Widdemer
home to herthink that where all so full
home would seem And though we were late,
By UnknownComes a happy deeds,
won so many Gone from us evidenceof creation..
it defies all with all the It believes beyond
And it never love away . . .and enduring come
of deep devotionA Mother's love is
And He gave In her cheeks
her heart of never grows old;go away.
I do it upon her cheek
love her and Place them in If roses grow
For nothing loved And think of that we could
comfort where there her as resting away, her journey’s just begunall our love.
To our dear sunshine,upon her picture,
For all her same to you.true;
what she sees.She’s still keeping wonderful mother,shining stars,
made of sunshine,We had a mother up above;
And a smile Sweet memories we loving kindness,
When other friends No other friend By Unknown
Your life from ‘Mother’,
