Mothers by my mother (thank her very much!)

All kinds of mothers!
Like the one you loved most,
the one who loved you and enjoyed you
and taught you and smiled with you
and told you of her own mother
and also her stepmother!

The other mother who was the mother of your love
who taught you so much!

And then you were a mother:
kissing babies, learning babies,
helping babies, bragging babies.

The years went on and one year your children
had children and you were a grandmother.

Each phase of motherhood better than the last,
even great grandchildren and mothers,
all mothers...

and nothing seemed so great as being one of them
those that mother one child or ten...

Motherhood so wonderful!
How come some women don't seem to want children?
How lonely their lives will be,
not even be able to think and remember them when they are gone...

Oh! Yes! It's work to be a mother,
but it's also interesting, and cudly,
and loving
especially the loving wonderful pleasure
that only a mother can have!

I'm grateful I'm a mother!
are you grateful that you are a mother?
Hope so!
For it is Mother's Day next Sunday...

by Melba Dungey,
mother of four,
grandmother of six,
greatgrandmother of still counting
(five and more coming and always welcomed!)