Power In Quiet Strength ©Dawn Minott — Tribute To My Mom |Quatrain with audio

On May 11, 2025May 11, 2025 By Dawn MinottIn Poetry37 Comments

I have never seen my mother crying

Or hear her utter needless complaining

Though heaven knows, there’s no denying

Life’s given her much cause for whining

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I have never seen my mother stopped trying

Or see her back down from trials and failing

Got up when she fell, pathways retracing

‘Till she reached the goal she was intending

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I have never seen my mother not providing

Or not ensured her children were eating

No job too small, if honest, she was working

Late at night or early morning—always returning

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I have never seen my mother not praying

Or trusting in God for the way making

No mater the cause she’s not worrying

An example she is in persevering

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I have never heard my mother shouting

Or seen her get her way by conniving

Humility and truth is her way of being

Quiet strength—that’s her power—emanating

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Someone Else’s Mother ©Dawn Minott | International Day for the Eradication of Poverty, October 17

On October 17, 2023October 17, 2023 By Dawn MinottIn Poetry19 Comments

Unsteadily she trudged
Earthly possessions hauled in tattered, torn bags
Hand extended in alms for she’s got hungry babes to feed
Beneath the load she stumbled
Balancing the weight
Clumsily breaking her fall
Muttering in whispers she only hears
Words to comfort self, assail distress
To you she’s just another vagrant
But she’s someone else’s mother

Someone awaits the familiarity of her footsteps echoing on the floor
Someone awaits the safety only her embracing arms can restore
Someone awaits the lullaby only her serene voice can sing
Someone awaits the love only her heart will bring
Ignored or abused
Mistreated or neglected
Someone awaits her
For she, too, is
Someone else’s mother

According to the United Nations: “In a world characterized by an unprecedented level of economic development, technological means and financial resources, that millions of persons are living in extreme poverty is a moral outrage. Poverty is not solely an economic issue, but rather a multidimensional phenomenon that encompasses a lack of both income and the basic capabilities to live in dignity.”

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