Hope for Mothers

[Delta40]

Anxious mothers with cupboards bare
Don’t be worried by your tangled hair.
Close your eyes to your trodden self
put salt and pepper on the shelf.
I have felt what all mothers need.
Open air and a wish to be free.
Pull this cord when you’re feeling flat
sunlit rays will stream through slats.
bathe in tender, loving haze.
While tiny babes cry through the day
Toss and tumble dual natures
and trust young grass will mature
to greener fields where your earthy selves
free saddles from horses and dance like elves.
Your special gift is nurturing life
that stocks cupboards full and quells all strife.
We protect homes like wise old trees
that embrace the challenge of family.
We can’t be locked on a mundane course
when we free the knots of maternal force.

[hillwalker]

A paean to motherhood - alluding to the shackles of domesticity (not just Mother Hubbard's shelves but the 'toss' and 'tumble' of laundry perhaps) - and expressing a longing for light, freedom and recovery.

Some of the rhyme and metre are a bit bumpy in places - but original and intriguing all the same.

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[AuntShecky]

Oh, this is wonderful, Delta! So free of the banal, greeting card schmaltz and remarkably resonant. Thanks for posting it.

[Delta40]

Hill - I smoothed it a bit
Aunt - I didn't think of it as a greeting card but you have a good point when I think of the schmaltz out there!

[Haunted]

this shines a spotlight on the toiling moms who are taken for granted. The line "We protect homes like wise old trees" brings it all in perspective.

[zoolane]

Lovely sentimental of Mother hope. Which every mother hope to full.

[Delta40]

Thanks Zoo and Haunted. Lol. Should I apply for a job at Hallmark Cards?

[Haunted]

OMG don't ever think that Delta. There's nothing Hallmark about this. This is poetry inside and out. It's such a perceptive account of the dilemmas a mother feels, you should be proud!

[AuntShecky]

OMG don't ever think that Delta. There's nothing Hallmark about this. This is poetry inside and out. It's such a perceptive account of the dilemmas a mother feels, you should be proud!

That's just what I said-- that it was "free" of banality and
schmaltz.

[Delta40]

That's just what I said-- that it was "free" of banality and
schmaltz.

Thanks Aunty. Your compliment prompted me to think I could transform Hallmark and rid it of its banality :D