Greeting card aisle
all celebratory sins
at your disposal
birthday, anniversary
shout-outs
long-time-no-sees
Thank-yous!
Love you!
I’m sorry!
pronouncing gratitude
for things and flings
sorry-you’re-feeling-blue
get well tomes
Good luck!
kiss-offs
congratulatory
over-priced nods
to milestones
earned, attained,
survived
sweated out
colorful, sentimental,
creased tagboard
matching-envelope;
touchstone marked by mirth!
merriment! maudlin mooning!
four-ninety-nine a shot
plus postage
Same price of a latte
someone else
gets the kick
mid-April; the usual
array of acknowledgment
gets crowded out,
relegated to status
Miss America-runner-up
Making way for
kitschy, kindly
sunny and sentimental
mantle-sitting
maternal mementos
Momuments.
row upon row
testaments to
matriarchal tolerance
sage wisdom dispensed,
ignored, disposed, pondered
much valued only
after-the-fact;
nature of boundless nurture
boo-boos bandaged
busted hearts mended
steamrolled dreams
dusted off, put back in place
wrongs of others she righted
lessons she pointed out
that you heard but haven’t
learned as yet
Commemorating years of
“Aha”! moments
via dramatic script
comedic font
soft-focus flowers
pseudo-witty cartoons
Yearly cardboard holy grail
vainly laboring to convey
the significance of
who, what, why
you are – where you are –
because of
who, what, how, why
she was, is
always will be
mom.
– Mark L. Lucker
© 2017
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