Hi neighbors. Happy Mother's Day to all you Moms out there! I thought today I'd offer some help for those of us who lack adequate words to tell our mothers, grandmothers, wives, sisters, daughters and other women friends, just what their role as a mother means to us.

Here are some poems collected just for you, written by those two most talented writers, Author Unknown and Anonymous. Read them aloud to the mothers in your life or to yourself and enjoy memories of your own mother no longer with you.

When Mother Reads Aloud

When Mother reads aloud, the past Seems real as every day; I hear the tramp of armies vast, I see the spears and lances cast, I join the thrilling fray; Brave knights and ladies fair and proud I meet when Mother reads aloud.

When Mother reads aloud, far lands Seem very near and true; I cross the deserts' gleaming sands, Or hunt the jungle's prowling bands, Or sail the ocean blue.

Far heights, whose peaks the cold mists shroud, I scale, when Mother reads aloud.

When Mother reads aloud, I long For noble deeds to do...

To help the right, redress the wrong; It seems so easy to be strong, So simple to be true.

Oh, thick and fast the visions crowd My eyes, when Mother reads aloud.

-- Author Unknown

Mother

Your Love is like an island In life's ocean, vast and wide, A peaceful quiet shelter From the wind and rain and tide.

Above it like a beacon light Shone faith and truth and prayer; And through the changing scenes of life, I find a haven there.

-- Author Unknown

Mother

They were lovely, all the mothers of the days of long ago, With their gentle, quiet faces And their hair as white as snow.

They were middle-aged at forty, at fifty donned lace caps And at sixty clung to shoulder shawls and loved their little naps.

But I love the modern mother who can share in all our joys, And who understands the problems of her growing girls and boys.

She may boast that she's older, but her heart is twenty-three...

My glorious bright-eyed mother Who is keeping young with me.

-- Author Unknown

A Mother's Love

A mother's love! What can compare with it! Of all things on earth, it comes nearest to divine love in heaven.

A mother's love means a life's devotion -- and sometimes a life's sacrifice -- with but one thought, one hope and one feeling, that her children will grow up healthy and strong, free from evil habits and able to provide for themselves. Her sole wish is that they may do their part like men and women, avoid dangers and pitfalls, and when dark hours come, trust in Providence to give them strength, patience and courage to bear up bravely.

Happy is the mother when her heart's wish is answered, and happy are sons and daughters when they can feel that they have contributed to her noble purpose, and in some measure, repaid her unceasing, unwavering love and devotion.

-- Anonymous

Happy Mother's Day to all!