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One special way to show your appreciation for your mom is with a heartfelt Mother's Day poem, like the 25 below. Some are from famous poets, like Edgar Allan Poe , while others are lesser-known.
'You left us beautiful memories, your love is still our guide.'
Mother: A Cradle to Hold Me is a 2006 collection of poems by Maya Angelou, praising mothers. The book entered The New York Times Best Seller list the week of May 21, 2006 at number thirteen. [ 1 ]
His poem "Heart's Needle" proved inspirational for her in its theme of separation from his three-year-old daughter. [8] Sexton first read the poem at a time when her own young daughter was living with her mother-in-law. She, in turn, wrote "The Double Image", a poem which explores the multi-generational relationship between mother and daughter.
"This Be The Verse" is a lyric poem in three stanzas with an alternating rhyme scheme, by the English poet Philip Larkin (1922–1985). It was written around April 1971, was first published in the August 1971 issue of New Humanist, and appeared in the 1974 collection High Windows.
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Letter consists of 28 short essays, which includes a few poems and a commencement address, and is dedicated to "the daughter she never had". [2] Reviews of the book were generally positive; most reviewers recognized that the book was full of Angelou's wisdom and that it read like words of advice from a beloved grandmother or aunt.
Born in Los Angeles, California, [5] [6] Gorman was raised by her single mother, Dr. Joan Wicks, a 6th-grade English teacher in Watts, [7] with her two siblings. [5] [8] Her twin sister, Gabrielle, is an activist [9] and filmmaker. [10] Gorman has said she grew up in an environment with limited television access. [11]