If I'm missing when you dare to be brave,
Or if your soul suddenly cries out in need,
Always look for me, love, you will find me close to you
In the gust of wind, or in the fall of leaves,
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
But, I have crossed the stars and gained greater flight,
I have reached the end of the sun's long race,
And, dear mother, from the threshold of light,
I will wait for you in that starry place.
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
Love is not the love that changes when it is changed,
Or twist with remover to remove:
Oh no! This is an ever-sure sign,
He sees the storms and never moves;
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
It is love itself that love does not think to know,
But life is unchanged, unchanged like the sun,
Which shines even when the weather is bad;
And its light breaks every storm that comes.
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
My mother's hands wove them,
measurement of winter days,
The measurement of nights and moons."
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
Some people go around the world saying
What a wonderful world this is,
But ah, little do they know
'About the miracles right under your nose
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
A situation in which we met
Sweet childish playfulness,
And gravity, calm and high,
And infinite tenderness.
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
You didn't want me as a girl,
You said you might have wished for a boy.
The way you said it made me think
I was some nightmare that you might have seen.
Poetry for Mom's Birthday
Mom, your body is a tapestry
woven from wounds and triumphs
Like the history of nations.
I will arise and go now, and go to Innisfree,
And live peacefully on the shore;
Yes, I will go now, and go to Innisfree,
For peace will come to me again.