How To Write Your Own Poems For Mothers On Mothers Day

Poems are beautiful expressions of your heart put into words that rhyme. Wouldn't it be wonderful to write a personal poem for your mother? If you don't think you can do it, you are wrong. Anyone can write a poem. It does not have to be a best seller; all it needs is to be from the heart. Here's a simple formula to write your own poem for your mother.

The first step is to consider what to write about your mother. You can think of something you love or admire about her. This may be an aspect of her character such as her love, patience, forgiving nature or a combination of those. Another good theme to write about is the past, present and future relationship with your mother. In other words describe what your relationship with your mother is like in the past, present and what you hope it will be like in future. Obviously, you ought to describe that which is good in the relationship.

Once you have decided on the theme, you can give your poem a title in line with the theme. Now comes the actual writing. Your poem can come in different structures or formats. The most common one is the four lines a verse type of poem. Another type of poem is where the verses do not have any specified number of lines. It may be a single line or any number of lines. In fact, such free-style poems are so unstructured, they may even consist of only single lines.

The major part of writing your poem is obviously to choose the words. Since this is meant to be a poem, it is expected to have words that rhyme. So it is worthwhile to write your poem around some well-chosen words that rhyme. But how do you find rhyming words? Actually, finding words that rhyme is not very difficult if you know the characteristics of such words. Rhyming words can be classified into four basic categories.

1. Words with the same suffixes or endings such as 'tion', 'sion', 'al', 'er', 'est', 'ly' etc. Mother rhymes with brother, sister, father, greater, lovelier etc. Devotion rhymes with sensation, attraction, mention, attention, completion etc. Likewise, prettiest rhymes with wittiest, gentlest, warmest, cleverest, smartest and so on.

2. Words with partly the same spelling. For example, girl rhymes with pearl, friend rhymes with send, turn rhymes with burn, hat rhymes with sat, bat, mat, fat etc.

3. Words with different spelling but the similar sounds. For example, sky rhymes with goodbye and pie, guy rhymes with why and my, slow rhymes with go and Joe.

4. Words that sound similar enough to be considered as rhyming. For example, ocean and mountain or you and too.

The last aspect of writing a poem is to have the same (or almost the same) number of syllables for each line or each other line. This makes your poem easy to read. This is not a hard and fast rule but this pattern helps in enhancing the quality of your poem.

Lest I be accused of not practicing what I preach, here's an original poem I wrote using the above method:

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

For more beautiful poems for mothers, go to Poems for Mothers