A Mother's Day Poem - Watching From The Sidelines

Watching from the sidelines
as my Mother put on her makeup
I knew she was the most beautiful
Mother in the world.

Watching from the sidelines
as my Mother baked a cake
I knew she was the best
Cook in the world.

Watching from the sidelines
as my Mother tended my cut knee
I knew she was the best
Nurse in the world.

Watching from the sidelines
as my Mother served her guests
I knew she was the best
Hostess in the world.

Watching from the sidelines
as my Mother lived her life
I knew she was the best
Friend in the world.

Watching from the sidelines
as my Mother left this life
I knew she was the best
In my life - And I miss her.

Poetry Mom

Mother's Day, A Celebration and a Remembrance

A woman who was never a Mother herself led the campaign for national recognition of Mother's Day. Anna Jarvis held a ceremony in 1907 in Grafton, West Virginia, to honor her Mother, who had died two years earlier. Jarvis' Mother had tried to establish Mother's Friendship Days as a way of dealing with the aftermath of the Civil War. Anna Jarvis began a campaign to create a national holiday honoring Mothers. She and her supporters wrote to ministers, businessmen and politicians, and they were successful in their efforts.

In 1910, West Virginia became the first state to recognize the new holiday, and the nation followed in 1914 when President Wilson declared the second Sunday in May to be Mother's Day. Jarvis used white carnations as a symbol for Mothers, because carnations represented sweetness, purity and the endurance of Mother love. (Today, white carnations represent a Mother who has died, while red carnations represent a living Mother.)

Unfortunately, Jarvis became bitter over the commercialization of the holiday. She filed a lawsuit to stop a 1923 Mother's Day event and was even arrested for disturbing the peace at a Mother's convention where white carnations were being sold. Jarvis never married and never had children. She died in 1948.

Mother's Day continues to be a very commercial holiday in the United States. Flowers, candy and cards are typical gifts, and phone traffic is especially high on the second Sunday in May.

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