Remembering Mother Poem by Liilia Talts Morrison

Remembering Mother

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She was a stunning beauty
the kind with modest eyes
as if her perfect features
were just a pale disguise
to clothe the haunted mem'ries
of loved ones' harsh demise

She went on a vacation
when youth still had its day
but no fine destination
could her deep pain allay
although the next grim reaper
was still some years away

This woman was my mother
who as a little girl
had lost her only brother
in war's destructive whirl
and then would lose her sister
in battles bloody fields

She married and had children
and just when life seemed fair
the rumbles burst to panic
in World War's killing flares
and she broke down with sickness
her hearing was impaired

This woman who loved singing
and reading poetry
was silenced into deafness
yet bore this hopefully
her skin was filled with lesions
yet beauty did not flee

She always weathered hardships
enduring gracefully
nor did she utter harsh words
accepting silently
she was a special mother
so beautiful to me.

Wednesday, July 23, 2014
Topic(s) of this poem: mother
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COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Margaret O Driscoll 11 January 2016

'She always weathered hardships', 'silenced into deafness', sad but touching tribute, she is very proud you carry on her legacy of poetry :)

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