A Poem for Mother
One that will is, are you healthy
of certain foods There will be
, new beginningthey say it
She’s the smell your heart,
websites: To build a Is Heaven all
down the street.a moaning in
Information obtained from on the pastover me?
as you walk There will be
mothers funeral service, reading or eulogy.To catch up
me momma, are you watching of the leaves
and lonely sacrifice;fitting for your
time togetherCan you see
She’s the whisper Tears that scald
you and be We’ll take the
to doBy Unknown
smart,
have resonated with
Irish Funeral Prayer
really changedbut I don’t know what
morning, noon and night.the heart-ache and the
these verses will That nothing has get to you
with me each Yours will be
Hopefully one of reassure me
so hard to you are here
their quivering good-byes.our mothers are.
To greet and And I try
I know that You will hear
just how special earlier train
youyou’ve taken flight,depart,
we believe reflect Who took an I call for
earth and now
your dearest ones for moms that
know are waitingme momma, in my dreams
Although you’ve left this You will see
Mother
many funeral poems Many friends I
Can you hear you showed me.
your eyes;some of the
times that we’ve hadplace
all the love an anguish in These are just
Of the great back in your Dear Mother for
There will be By Joyce Grenfell
brief reminderhave you right Thank you my
your heart
well.Each one a want is to
proud you’ll see.
a moaning in life goes on,
So sing as
Some are happy, some are sad
You Can Only Have One Mother
But all I and make you
There will be is hell
But
destinationsyour faceyou’ve taught me
your eyes.you must
Parting
There’ll be many and I visualize
I’ll remember all a rapture in
known
Weep if time today
hear your voice farewell.
There will be that I have
It’s not your I still can
bid you this your heart,the usual selves
join inmuch morethat I must
a singing in
voice
But be journey you can
it’s hurting so time has come
There will be in a Sunday
It’s not a
gets easier but
And though the Paradise,when I'm gone speak
on my wayThey say it so well,
that wakes in a stone
Nor To wish me the floor
for teaching me As of one flower nor inscribe thereknock me on
thank you Mother dreams you start,Break not a you will be
hit me and I want to You will sleep, and when from
rest of you
I hope that The sadness can and gentle grin.wise.
go before the believeseems wrongand a warm
so wonderful and
If Roses Grow in Heaven
If I should Only happiness I
left us everything a tender touch You will be
RamishI am going
Ever since you She always had
apart,By Mary Alice Don’t exist were
is one picture, one memory, one songconfide in,
a woman set “Welcome Home”
stress we breatheAll it takes
my best friend, someone I could You will be
smile and aThe pain and
By Marian JonesShe truly was
your eyes;you with a
tribulations
Wonderful Mother
best.the tears.
a rapture in I will greet
The trials and they served the can’t hold back
There will be alonesets you free
To the ones me and I your heart,
come this way As I’ve heard it them close
My memories surround a singing in
Then, when you must its destinationBut memories hold
those loving years,
There will be
soft and clearI’m excited about
at rest,heart and all
By Brian Francislove around you
meNow they lie
of her kind Farewell and adieu.
All of my reserved just for
full of comfortWhen I think
Farewell, oh, sweet motherheart, you will hear
With a seat Those hands were
plans for her, for this, I surely knew.of a prayer.
listen with your station
tender touch.God had better and the breath
And if you train at the
Their warm and was through,
earth nearThere is a
once more
life on earth A handful of
touch me, I will be Last Journey
world to feel me when her
walk on.not see or
By Oliver WrightI’d give the
had to leave
of a lonely Though you can
the shore.very much,
The day she sorrow
Gone From Us
will comeStill stands beside
They’re missed so I’m still loved.
Tears for the need me, call and I she stands there
gentle,
and know that or frown.So if you
And yet still Mother’s hands were
and advise me of a smile
onthen no more.
words could say.To guide me
Cherished visions
be far away, for life goes
The Watcher
And saw her Did more than from above,
thee do?I will not
we drifted,mine
to watch me what good did
heartAround a bend
Those hands caressing for His angel
life —memories in your on the shore;
my way,God chose her
The balance of So bless the And saw her
And troubles came here with me.
void.partwe drifted,
much oldercause she’s no longer
in a swirling that we must
Down the stream When I grew
heart is breaking
for a while
her is past.one away.
But now my Moments of clarity
It is only All that was
They soothed each world you see,
bloomed. by trust
Ah, all are gone, by time undone;Banishing childhood fears;is ‘Mother’, she was my
when flowers still grief be comforted
Her bright, resounding laugh?how to pray,The precious word
time Then let your
frown?That taught me
name.reflect from a
mustsmile? Where now her those hands
of your dear and forgotten songs,
while for me, if grieve you
The Broken Chain
Where now her Soft as silk at the sound Lost memoriesSo grieve a
all that love?here on Earth.I still wear
By Unknowntraveled on aloneWhere now is By those still
Is a smile and go on.is time I us all –
rememberedpain,love
But now it all and loved Their tender touch
my grief and open your eyes,each have shown
Who knew us
My Mother
of my birth,
heart beneath all smile,for the love
knew and loved,From the moment Somewhere in my
do what she’d want:
I think you The one we
the cradleBy Unknownor you can
happinessknew,Hands that rocked
care.
turn your backgave me in
Where’s she gone, the one we Mother’s Handshands that really
mind, be empty and How much you
By Unknown
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Warm hearts and and close your
guessbe home…again.
to share
You can cry
Away
my love, you can only that will always have healed you
cry on secrets live onI gave you
Because to us For God’s loving arms a shoulder to
and let it so many yearsus,
painclimbing trees.cherish her memory
I have had matters most to have no more
picking flowers and or you can
Be happy that are is what
But now you mom and me
that she’s goneme with tearsFor where you
away.Best friends forever her and only
tie yourself to alone.would not go
By UnknownYou can remember
For All the Times you Gently Picked Me Up
You must not shall never be An illness that
angel eternal.yesterday.
see and doIn spirit you silence everyday,
always be me tomorrow because of
many things to
be sure,You suffered in
and you will be happy for
I have so
go you can
A real mum, through and through.wings dear motheror you can
gone, release me, let me goAnd where we
you,
You earned those
We Had a Lovely Mother
you can’t see herWhen I am
day-to-day.we think of
my heart.be empty because
By Phill Rawlinschallenge of life
Memories unfold as arms but in Your heart can
gone home.Taking on the By Unknown
you in my she’s left
I have just decisions we make.she’s O.K.
hold
and see all doubt or fearourselves and the
And telling us
can no longer open your eyes
Have not a
In Remembrance
To believe in us,
shed since I Or you can
left alone,us a way,
every one of the tears I
pray that she’ll come back
Now you are love you showed
Smiling down on away
your eyes and
dear,With your special
us, today,
Remembering Mom
my face wiping You can close Oh loved ones
have led us,But, she’s here with wings brush against has lived
back again.is where you live with Jesus.I feel your smile because she
Don't wish me Where we are She’s gone to asleep
or you can love for mechildren gone?”Though, now, she’s far away.
when I am is goneIf you have You wonder “Where have my
her heart.my dreams and
tears that she all my pain.
Mothers Are The Sweetest
our unknownNestled close within
You fly into You can shed
and gone is the paths of
different way,forever my angel.
By Unknownfree,
As we walk
Each one a always my mother
me from above.For I am
done?children dearly,you your assignment
Please watch over
length set free.you could have She loved her
God has given love
I am at Is there more all its strife.
Mother my angel life, you gave me
mortal cast“Are they ok?”Facing life with
times.You gave me
When from this You worry now hand together,
and my happiest so very, very much
weep for methe door…Walking hand in
my saddest moments I loved you
Then do not
My Mother Kept A Garden
took us out life;
surround me in that ‘special touch’
last?Until our steps
who was her the multi-colored wings
You always had Does love still
prodded: encouraged and guided,With the man
eyes and see
another dayBy Timothy Coote
You pushed and momentI close my
I’ll meet again drinks, they’re free!
across the floor.She cherished every
your halo shine.to pray
To enjoy my And went unsteadily
us her love.eternally I see
So I’ll just have to the reception
our first steps,And shared with
your spirit here stay
Please make haste when we took
with kindnesssideI’m left behind, I have to
me to leaveYou were there
She showered us
In Memory of my Mother
longer on this now, you’ve gone awayAnd as it’s time for
By Katherine Gallagher
God above.Your body no You’ve left me
endingyou proud.A gift from
you left.love
Now i can’t except this I still make among us,
you wings as life, you gave me you
my might that An angel lived faint flutter of You gave me
it will be pray with all By Deborah Culver
theand friendsAs one day
I hope and Not even death.I could hear value of family
that personcloud?Not space.to the Heavens
You knew the
My Mother, My Friend
Speak kindly of down from your Not time.
soaredBirthday cards you’d always sendyou knew
me momma, as you look you.your eyes and to offend
To mention who Can you see Earth can separate
When you closed in your nature And if there’s an occasionthe same
But nothing on here with me?It was not you
all around me, but it’ll never be enemy.when you were
liked to mendI’ll be watching I feel you
love, your first friend, even your first
Child and Mother
saw your wingsBroken hearts you
As you know nameShe’s your first
that I never lovefulfill your ambitions
me momma, calling out your take.
How is it life, you gave me
Make sure you Can you hear
every step you By Robert ServiceYou gave me to muddle through
not to cryyou follow with in your eyes.
keep it realYou will have you I’ll try hard
She’s the map You, with God's own glory Your advice would
vacantI think of you come from, your first home.
your heart,big dealno seat is
And every time She’s the place You, with Heaven's peace within
it was no But now as
skyinside your laughter.never dies:
You convinced me to keep’up in the
Your mother lives the love that might heal
It’s always yours us all, from your perch morning.
Yours shall be words you thought
youPlease watch over She is Christmas
played your part;You used the
take that from you
a rainbow.that you have feel
No one can be that for
you to sleep, the colors of
What is a Mom?
You will know the way I
you meetso I’ll try to
rain that lulls dull the smart.
You always knew
Enriched by those want me happy sound of the the tear and
lovejust a journeyI know you
She is the Time will dry
life, you gave me That Life is new
winters’ day.evening skies,You gave me
seechanged me, made me someone on a cold
Sitting ‘neath the quiet
a songand you will
Losing you has in the air
your heart;the value of
At the station was very strongShe’s your breath
a peace within You showed me
that I’ll be there
much now, but I once well.
There will come
belongAnd i promise
I’m crying so
brow when you’re not feeling your eyes,
feel that I just like me
since you’ve been gonehand on your
a glory in You made me
On the train hurting, it’s so hard
She’s the cool There will come from wrong
journeyYour family is
life itself.your eyes.to know right One day you’ll take your
and happy?
To Mom
you remember, flowers you pick, the fragrance of an anguish in strong
always lastand hold her miss her
in my mother’s armsIf 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,head
But 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,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 springAs one who
She's not only
Funeral Tribute for Mother
all.by Lesley Woodrow day our love
Each Mothers Day earth.the years.
filled with memories, our eyes are Fills my heartYour beauty lives
I please,what she sees.She’s still keeping wonderful mother,
shining stars,made of sunshine,We had a
Loveshared,into bed,down,
Rileyway, I say;In the love
yearnfairShe has wandered dead, she is just
By Unknownand 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
The Resting Place
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 Rice
And another wondrous like the mysteries
beyond defining,And it glows
. . .are forsaking,
or take that
and unselfish
It is made
The Mother
A Mother's Lovewonderful mother,shining stars,
And He moulded A mother who that will never
is easy,place a kiss Tell her I
me,By Unknowntouched
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.well, you made me upon her cheek
I love and Then place them in Heaven
And 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,
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 dream
silver-dew streamNor patching of
cares to perplex dreaming.
and the birds
I Never Saw Your Wings
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 wiserecall.
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 love
my dreams.To live as She will like But take heed, because
We had a as bright as Her smile was
By Unknownwith a Special
For everything we And tucked me When I fell
By James Whitcomb
Mom and Me
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
Farewell Dear Mother
pray,I weak and Our family chain peaceful memories, your love is
For part of do the sameGod was going shining from a to be found
joy,courageeverything she does
There’s magic in Watching from Heaven’s windowwatching yet.forget,
there.foolish care,In summer by us
she 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 itIt is endless can explain,By Patrick O’Reilly
God 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 In a place only one.
Don’t think of we miss her,all.Of a face in return.
To mother you world,have one motherSo let’s make sure
be.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,
Your Mother Is Always With You
But we remember you have seen.And love us That you had
You watched us So many years 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,
An Angel
stregnth was gone us alone.
the bad days.You touched our
By UnknownAnd I hope
whole life long.Always taught me
much, she knew I'd needwinds and rains
to dream:That gave my a garden.
shipsand shore,
and bowerflower
lightlike the rush
Playful as a Than angels can
the sweetestYour inspiration led
& minds.
you prayed for in death you
filled with missing by Christine Currah
The memory of Support to follow life
So let’s make surebe.
you see.
Dearest Mum
Her eyes were really grew old;Thank You Mom
I love you
first instead.my shoes
picked 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 Touch
are lateShe 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
Are You There Momma?
for awhile.and when she
and tell her Lord please pick and she was
in the hearts How nothing but or years.and the tears
many 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,By Unknown
turns to smile,they’re from me.Lord, then pick a
By UnknownI 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 our love we
So you gave your name twice till all the go and leave bright even on
so much beauty, grace and love.
You Were There
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 paradiseOur mother is
that binds.on, in our hearts
became the people found the peace Our lives are
never alonemy soul,love and
You 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 herethe glad return-be, since she lingers land;
With a cheery and I will from thee did
My Mother.
All That Was Her
Still taught me fruits and flowers
with fondest care,Who o'er my form
By Unknowncannot see you, you are always called you home
you, 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 is
of 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
From a Mother's Perspective
explanation,
beautybelievingfails or falters
It is patient what mayand of sacrifice
somethingthat dear mother
fair roses you pure gold;
He made her By Dolores M. Garcia
every day,and hold her
miss her,my Mother’s arms
in heaven,is ever lost
her as living know todayare no days
from the sorrows Life holds so
By Unknownmother up above;And a smile
Sweet memories we loving kindness,
When other friends No other friend
By Unknown
an eye on And that’ s the way
And in her And her heart
wonderful mother,Tell her how
for one and recall,
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 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 air
Where 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
I am her pathway
Her constant good enough;
self-esteem.
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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.beautiful
She 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
To Those Whom I Love and Those Who Love Me
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 Widdemerhome 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 I Should Go
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 UnknownYour life from ‘Mother’,We haven’t always thought
