Noll Sends You "Mother's Day" Remembrances

"Portrait of Kareen" by Alex Szabo

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"On the Flowers She Picked"

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~In Springtime~

Tidy nosegays of speckled lilies, pink spring beauties, violets or,

wild geraniums, red and white trillium,

glistening buttercups.

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~In Summertime~

Carefree bunches of white daisies, blue chicory, Queen Anne's lace,

milkweed spilling milky sap and,

long strands of grass gone to seed.

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~In Fall~

Sturdy bouquets of purple asters, plump cattails and,

yellow ragweed, goldenrod.

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In those fair seasons,

for a child carrying

color, fragrance, love,

It's impossible to say

What was the greater joy;

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~the gathering~

~the giving~

~or the light leaping from her mother's eyes?~

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"Happy Mother's Day" to you Mom

and to all Moms everywhere.