Please Santa-A NON ENTRY
O please dear Santa would you call my Mum?
You see, we don’t get on too well of late.
I miss our former closeness and I feel so glum
because her love has gone and turned to hate.
I love my Mum and know she will return
if you could speak to her and find out why
she feels the way she does. Oh, how I yearn
to have her in my arms before I die.
I really, really want your help Saint Nick
to heal the rift that’s grown between so wide.
That’s all I want and all that I would pick
so I can spend the day right by her side.
This is my wish that I hope will come true.
I’d be forever grateful then to you.
Jenelda White Dec 4th 2008
Author notes
My Mum and I have still not resolved our differences
A poem I wrote before I learnt to do rhythm, rhyme and meter.
http://allpoetry.com/poem/1599558
A contest entry
- HUGUENAUTIES CONTEST NUMBER # 39 FOR MEMBERS OF HUGH WYLES FAVOURITES GROUP ONLY. by huguenauties.
750 points, ended December 20, 2008, 11 entries
• next poem in this contest, remove from contest
Live to be happy
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This Brings Up Memories
My mother has Parkinson's and Alzehemier's so the combination of the two itself makes me realize that I do not know my original mother.
We have had our fair share of differences but none so great as when my older brother (whom I was very close to at the end) passed away and she prevented me from seeing him on his deathbed and even tried to prevent me from attending his funeral.
The wounds from this experience are still healing but I have my AA Program and the 12 & 12 to guide me towards a forgiveness with her. I too pray that we reach an understanding before we leave the mortal world, but for now I can only live "one day at a time" and continue to work my program to the best of my abilities and my Higher Power will eventually guide me when the time is right.
I do wish the same for you Jenelda.
Happy Holidays
Gregg
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Dearest Jen,
At Christmas time especially, divisions and rifts among families, particularly between parents and children, are most keenly felt and it is to be hoped that the Spirit of Christmas will bring about a reconciliation.
I am deeply touched by your poem which portrays the pain a young woman, estranged from her mother, must feel and I pray that you will both feel the joys of forgiveness and reunion which filial and parental love will exentually kindle.
Good luck in the voting. Applause, love and hugs, Hugh (R.)
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Oh Jen, I hope your wish comes true for you this Christmas...
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I hope you get your wish and love desolves the rift!
Best wishes for a Merry Christmas with your Mom and all your other loved ones!
<3 Maureen
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Dear Jen, I know how upset you get when your Mum ignores you, she is your Mum and I know you love her, hopefully one day she'll come around, we all pray for that for your sake.
One good thing is you have your Dad and you get on with life, not letting it get you down. You also have us to give you plenty of love and you are going to have a wonderful holiday this Christmas.
Love AJ
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Beautiful and tender
We are born into relationships, and it is a very painful thing, perhaps the worst, when these break. Your poem shows the feelings, which I know well - and I pray that saints and angels will move to help you. Best wishes and Merry Christmas - thanks for a moving sonnet.
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A poignant purple background
saved from some years ago,
so appropriate for the sad message,
the longing for resolution.
May a Christmas angel send a solution!
M-C
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Ahh... this is so sad, Jenelda being at odds with your Mom. I do hope you get your Christmas wish or at least a start on it. Sometimes this kind of thing goes in little baby steps over time but sometimes it just happens overnight. I bet she's just as hurt over all of this as you are, though.
A poignant, heartfelt poem.
Dee
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Thanks Dee, I'm hoping one day my Mum will come around, I hope some of my wishes come true. My Mum had a bad childhood, we think that's the problem. Sometimes the past is hard to forget. But Santa may come good.
Love Jen
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First, that is an interesting side panel on the background. Is that yours or one of AP's? I haven't looked at AP's in ages, but I've never seen this one before.
Ho ho ho, I will, get out of my rocking chair, put on my red britches and suspenders, hook up the old reindeer and get that gift right out to you.
Sorry about you and your mom...I guess not all mothers and daughters see eye to eye.
I certainly hope you can reconcile...but until me, Blixen and those other lazy reindeer will just drop you off a different gift...you have a choice...and electric can opener or a Chippendale Dancer...did I mention that the can opener has a knife sharpener on it?
Merry Christmas Jenelda...just in case I forget to say it later.
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A Chippendale Dancer sounds great Yem, as long as he is tall, blond and blue eyed.
The background is one of a few I found on my memory stick, I think I got them off AP a looong time ago, you're quite welcome to use any of my backgrounds you like.
Merry Christmas to you too Yem.
And No, not all Mums and Daughters get along together, unfortunately.
Jen
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