Within
her hand these flowers
A fragrant
sweet bouquet
Offered
love she gives you
A garden's
best sachet
Held
within the beauty
Gift
of special love
Child
is filled with wisdom
Knows
the beauty of
Love
that she can offer
That
means so very much
Tenderness
and caring
With
a very gentle touch
Sweet
bouquet she offers
Will
bring forth happiness
Flowers
touched with velvet
Each
petal so priceless
No greater
joy is given
From
a tiny little hand
Than
flowers of soft colors
To feel
a love so grand
Remembrances
embraced now
For
many years to come
A gathering
of treasures
To place
in heart's album.
~ Francine
Pucillo ~
©used
with permission
Read
more of her poetry here:
POETRY~EMOTION
A history of Mother's Day
By HOLLY HILDEBRAND
Houston Chronicle Interactive
The first celebrations in honor
of mothers were held in the spring in ancient Greece. They paid tribute
to Rhea, the Mother of the Gods. During the 17th century,
England honored mothers on
"Mothering Sunday," celebrated on the fourth Sunday of Lent.
In the United States, Julia
Ward Howe suggested the idea of Mother's Day in 1872. Howe, who wrote the
words to the Battle Hymn of the Republic, saw Mother's
Day as being dedicated to
peace.
Anna Jarvis of Philadelphia
is credited with bringing about the official observance of Mother's Day.
Her campaign to establish such a holiday began as a remembrance
of her mother, who died in
1905 and who had, in the late 19th century, tried to establish "Mother's
Friendship Days" as a way to heal the scars of the Civil War.
Two years after her mother
died, Jarvis held a ceremony in Grafton, W. Va., to honor her. She was
so moved by the proceedings that she began a massive campaign to
adopt a formal holiday honoring
mothers. In 1910, West Virginia became the first state to recognize Mother's
Day. A year later, nearly every state officially marked the
day. In 1914, President Woodrow
Wilson officially proclaimed Mother's Day as a national holiday to be held
on the second Sunday of May.
But Jarvis' accomplishment
soon turned bitter for her. Enraged by the commercialization of the holiday,
she filed a lawsuit to stop a 1923 Mother's Day festival and was even arrested
for disturbing the peace at a war mothers' convention where women sold
white carnations -- Jarvis' symbol for mothers -- to raise money. "This
is not what I intended," Jarvis said. "I wanted it to be a day of sentiment,
not profit!"
When she died in 1948, at age
84, Jarvis had become a woman of great ironies. Never a mother herself,
her maternal fortune dissipated by her efforts to stop the
commercialization of the holiday
she had founded, Jarvis told a reporter shortly before her death that she
was sorry she had ever started Mother's Day. She spoke these words in a
nursing home where every Mother's Day her room had been filled with cards
from all over the world.
Today, because and despite
Jarvis' efforts, many celebrations of Mother's Days are held throughout
the world. Although they do not all fall at the same time, such
countries as Denmark, Finland,
Italy, Turkey, Australia and Belgium also celebrate Mother's Day on the
same day as the United States.
This
page is made for WWA who are mother's.
There
are two following pages
One
for Mother's that are Alive
and
the other page is for Mother's who have passed on.
Click
on the links below to go to pages that have Gift's that we will personalize
and also send to your mother.
Hope
you find something that you like.
