These beautiful Mother's Day poems will make your mom feel extra loved on her special day. Mark May 12, 2024 by sharing these famous poems for and about moms.

– A poem about my mother, who died two years ago. Beautiful spring blossoms conjure memories of you, My sassy marmalade Mama at age 42. “Don’t take shit from anybody,” she often said to me, ...

As the poet Sharon Doubiago wrote, “My mother is a poem I’ll never be able to write though everything I write is a poem to my mother.” Sometimes I wish everyone were as OCD as I am but not ...

My mother wrote in the poem that we “close windows, lock doors, bring night to the lamps, logs for the fire. We ask questions without answers about the depth of the sky. ...

My Poem to Dementia by Julie Donworth. What have you done with my mum dementia I look but I cannot see The woman and the mother she once used to be. What have you done with my mum dementia She ...

Diane wrote a moving poem about the changing relationship with her mother, Valerie, who had Alzheimer's disease. When her mother passed away, Diane read her poem, 'My Mum, My Mate' at the funeral. My ...

NPR's Scott Simon talks with Kevin Powell about his new poetry collection, "Grocery Shopping With My Mother." In it, Powell reflects on their complicated and troubled relationship.

It's called "Washing My Mother's Body: A Ceremony For Grief," and it is dedicated to her late mother. When I spoke with Harjo, the 23rd U.S. poet laureate, about this work, she started by reading ...