Happy Mother’s Day to mothers everywhere. This sonnet is dedicated to my hardworking wife. Her first name, Jianhua, means \u201cstrong foundation\u201d\u00a0in Putonghua (formerly Mandarin).<\/p>\n
“Mightier than the sword thou art,
\nThou can’st pierce like venomed dart,
\nTime and space count naught with thee,
\nLeagues of land or leagues of sea.”
\n\u2014an excerpt from The Pen by Mary Weston\u00a0Fordham, an African-American poet, born 1862.<\/p>\n
Many people often lament that life’s a bitch
\nat least that’s one of the ways they portray it
\nyou find ways to give that a positive switch
\nthen I don’t really mind having to hear it
\nSomehow some days in some ways it
\nseems when you make a similar complaint
\nabout what reality should be, is, and ain’t
\nonline or when we’re talking on a cell phone
\njoking when speaking to or about our adult son
\nabout work, your feet, me putting on weight
\nthen you quickly turn the conversation towards
\ntalk of some new thing you saw that was great
\nI want to hear more of what you have in store
\nliving with you life never was and never is a bore.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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