by David Braybrooke

Created on: March 01, 2007   Last Updated: December 27, 2010

Mothers of the world
teaching your broods
of young ones with
wise sayings and
loving reminders.

Intuitive foundations
of societies that
beat with the
sensing and caring
of hearth-warmed hearts.

Group-minded gatherers
with your matriarchal
traditions and dreamings
that pass down the
generational lines.

Nurture giving Goddess
who blesses the
harvests and
protects the paths of
the weak and the lost.

Practical seamstress
who stitches and mends
in time with the
increases of her
judicious savings.

Ladies of the fields
you toil from
sun-up with expert
scything and
labour-saving tools.

The secrets of childbirth
whispered with reverence
to the young brides
resplendent in
gowns and dowries.

Medicinal lessons
from the time-worn
and fact-seeking,
blessed dears with
their bunned-hair aloft.

Grandmotherly advice
from a life lived
with hardships
and memories of
depressions and wars.

Knowledge of the sisterhood
imparted with kindness
to the developing minds
of tomorrow's
inspired and true.

Feminine wisdom,
the bricks and the mortar
of family structures
all lovingly molded
in shape of the world.

(Heartfelt words to be
stitched in to a homemade quilt).

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