A Mother's Love

"Smoldering Fires" / Clarence Holbrook Carter

For Mag Pie's Monday Poetry Promp we were given the painting , "Smoldering Fires" by Clarence Holbrook Carter (pictured above). The painting depicts a mother standing on a porch holding her child with a mountain in the background. I chose to write about the love the mother has for her child.

A Mother's Love

from the soil

we live.

the night sky

our great companion.

mountains loomed

by us , protecting us,

smoldering the fires 

of our deepest regret and 

sorrow with its

majestic beauty.

The land as far reaching as the eye could

see has grown plentiful.

The love of the child I hold in my arms

has proven even more plentiful still,

the beauty in his eyes,

even more breathtaking then the sunsets

I see from my backporch swing.

This mother's love is for you

my child.

whenever needed, always available -

 each dawn, each day, each night as long

as I stay standing on this earth

I will be with you , loving you still

and when the angels carry me home

to the heavens

I will be wih you, loving you still.

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Submitted to Thinking of Them Thursdays - charity spotlight: Every Mother Counts

Below you will find the song," A Mother's Love". Enjoy!