~many A Mother Is Forgotten Today Poem by Adeline Foster

~many A Mother Is Forgotten Today

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~ Many A Mother Is Forgotten Today

Many a mother is forgotten today
For whatever reasons there are.
Those reasons will be the reasons that we
Will be forgotten someday in the far
Distant future when we have grown old;
Sure that the reasons we think of are true,
So the truth will never be told.
For no one will bother a mother today
For somebody’s mother she is;
And we mustn’t intrude on the family per-se,
So alone she sits as she lives
And pretends to the world that some boy or girl
Has remembered a mother at home:
For the shame of her youth-she knows the truth;
She pays in her hours alone.

COMMENTS OF THE POEM
Sathyanarayana M V S 17 October 2008

Very touching..........something to remember.........

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Ashraful Musaddeq 21 October 2008

So nice, so touchy, so beautiful! Ma'am I love it very much. With my love 10+

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Nia Riz 03 November 2008

a touching poem....beautiful..

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thomas carolan 26 August 2009

yes adeline many a mother this is very nice and true to all

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Sharilynn Reaser 24 August 2014

Thank you for inviting me to read this. It is very well written and honest. Thank you for reading my poem and for your kind words!

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Elena Plotkin 24 June 2013

Your poem reminds me of the saying how a mother can take care of twenty children but twenty children can not take care of one mother.

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Claude H Oliver Ii 29 December 2012

Parents are always in danger of being forgotten. Yet if we understand that our parents give us whatever they can, good, bad or otherwise: we remember them best through including them and us as the struggling, imperfect members of our human family. A thought provoking write.

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Joseph Anderson 19 September 2012

I am thankful that my dear mother was never forgotten. God forbid that ever happening to you. Sad and touching is this.but in many cases true. Well written, as usual

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Heather Wilson 15 June 2012

Such a wonderful poem, so well written, a person can have many relatives but only one Mother, so sad when she is forgotten. Thank you for inviting me to read, Adeline.

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Adeline Foster

Adeline Foster

Instructor of poetry, Hagerstown, MD
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