{"id":251933,"date":"2017-05-10T06:00:56","date_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:00:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/?p=251933"},"modified":"2017-05-10T06:00:56","modified_gmt":"2017-05-09T20:00:56","slug":"three-mothers-day-sonnets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/three-mothers-day-sonnets\/","title":{"rendered":"Three Mother\u2019s Day sonnets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Sonnet for Mother<\/strong><br \/>\nloving thoughts of my mother surfaced this week<br \/>\na pen and paper helped me get them off my chest<br \/>\nwrite them down, read them, a need to plainly speak<br \/>\nabout my beloved mother us children feel truly blessed<br \/>\nfrom baby bottles to breakfast, lunch and dinner plate<br \/>\nher home cooked food I\u2019ve overeaten it must be confessed<br \/>\nbeef stew, scalloped potatoes, cottage pudding, all just great<br \/>\nus five washed for church, shoes shined, pants, shirts pressed<br \/>\nguardian angels, a poem, a prayer for our family with love<br \/>\nteeth brushed, into pajamas, into bed for a night of rest<br \/>\nshe tucked us all in with care looking down from above<br \/>\nall her virtues and daily sacrifices are hard to be assessed<br \/>\nthose qualities not observed you could easily have guessed<br \/>\nin understanding that my mother and yours did her very best<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Mothers Need More Than One Poem<\/strong><br \/>\nMothers, every child in the wide world had em<br \/>\nmatrimonial bonds gave us Dad who made em<br \/>\nMothers gave us all our brothers and sisters<br \/>\nworked hands to the bone, callouses and blisters<br \/>\nMothers, they all had mothers and fathers as well<br \/>\nmany now gone to heaven or resting for a spell<br \/>\nMothers, some of us have had more than one<br \/>\nin some cases divorce, remarriage, or on the run<br \/>\nMothers, one biological one from our first breath<br \/>\nwho clothed, fed, and reared us, loved us till death<br \/>\nMothers got us off on time to church and school<br \/>\nwere our first teachers of basics and the Golden Rule<br \/>\nMothers, our wives, partners or us are now one<br \/>\nliving proof to children that life can be hard and fun<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\n<strong>Mothers Need Another Poem Too<\/strong><br \/>\nMothers, where would we be without one of them<br \/>\nlessons from Mother Mary\u2019s babe born in Bethlehem<br \/>\nMothers, unpaid years cooking and mopping the floors<br \/>\nhourly, daily, weekly, monthly, nonstop household chores<br \/>\nMothers, deal with kids fights, dads coming home drunk<br \/>\nchanging many poopy baby diapers that truly stunk<br \/>\nMothers sewing some of our older brothers clothes to fit us<br \/>\nsoothing our crying when siblings or childhood friends hit us<br \/>\nMothers thinking of kids seldom buy clothes for themselves,<br \/>\ntelling us our homemade clothes were made by Santa\u2019s elves<br \/>\nMothers finding ingredients for a chocolate birthday cake<br \/>\ntaking us all for a dip in the ocean, a pond or nearby lake<br \/>\nMothers, some gone now straight to heaven up above<br \/>\ngone but never forgotten they have our everlasting love<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sonnet for Mother loving thoughts of my mother surfaced this week a pen and paper&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":11,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[668,16725,163,12609],"class_list":["post-251933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opinion","tag-baby","tag-golden-rule","tag-kids","tag-mother-mary"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251933","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/11"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=251933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/251933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=251933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=251933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=251933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}