May Golden Shovel poem #6

source: A Maternal Theme and It’s Not All Sweetness

 

Why is there only one day for a

celebration of “Mom”? Why is the maternal

steeped in stereotype? Why is the theme

of motherhood so fraught for both women and

men? Is it because it’s

the source of our existence? Why not

let our mothers be both good and bad, have all

emotions? Why should she be only sweetness?

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I’m continuing to use Terrance Hayes’s Golden Shovel poem format, as proposed by the Sunday New York Times "At Home" section, for 30 Poems in 30 Days during National Poetry Month.

 

Take a newspaper headline that attracts you.

Use each word in the line as the end word for each line in your poem.

Keep the end words in order.

Describe the story that the headline is for.

The poem does not have to be about the same subject as the headline that creates the end words.

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