by Simon Darby
One common thing to do on Mother’s Day is to send poems to our mothers. Have you considered writing a personal one for your mother? If you don’t think you can do it, you have come to the right place. Here’s a simple method to write your own poem for your mother.
The first step is to decide what to write about. Think of something you love or admire about your mother. This may be some aspect of her character such as her love, patience, grace or a combination of those. Another good theme to write about is your past, present and future relationship with your mother. You could also make what you want to say to your mother but never got around to saying it as a theme.
From your theme, you derive the title of your poem. The next thing to think about is the format or structure of your poem. The most common one is the four lines a verse format. Another format of poem is where the verses do not have any specific number of lines. Such free-style poems may consist of only single lines or any number of lines in a verse.
The major part of writing your poem is to choose the right words. Since this is a poem, it should have words that rhyme. Choose your rhyming words and write your poem around these well-chosen words. Here’s where most people find the greatest difficulty.
But finding words that rhyme is not very difficult if you have a few tips. Rhyming words can be grouped into four basic categories.
1. Words with the same suffixes or endings such as ‘tion’, ‘ty’, ‘ment’, ‘er’, ‘est’, ‘ly’ etc.
For example, mother rhymes with sister, father, happier, greater, lovelier etc. Likewise, wisest rhymes with prettiest, gentlest, warmest, smartest and so on.
2. Words with partly the same spelling. For example, girl rhymes with pearl and curl, friend rhymes with mend, turn rhymes with burn, mat rhymes with hat, sat, fat etc.
3. Words with completely different spelling but the similar sounds. For example, sky rhymes with why, guy rhymes with goodbye and my, slow rhymes with Joe.
4. Words that sound similar enough to be considered as rhyming. For example, ocean and mountain.
Another consideration in writing a poem is to have the same (or almost the same) number of syllables for each line or every other line. This makes your poem more readable. This is not a hard and fast rule but such a pattern enhances the quality of your poem.
Here’s an original Mother’s Day poem I wrote with the tips I shared above. And with this I end with wishing you a wonderful Mother’s Day.
MOTHER YOU ARE TO ME
Mother you are to me
My joy and inspiration
In you I always see
A life of full devotion
Mother you are to me
My hope when I am down
Though others may desert me
You will always be around
Mother you are to me
A warm hug and smiling face
I’m a living legacy
Of your wisdom, love and grace
You can use my poem if you want, but there’s more where that came from at Poems for Mothers
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