Mother’s Day Tribute | Micropoetry

Mother

Melding XX geneterations

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Mother of mine
Mother in me
I see you there
in my daughter,
melding,
immortalised in
our XX geneterations

© Carolyn Hastings 2022

For many of us, next Sunday (May 8th) is Mother’s Day, a day to honour and reflect upon motherhood in whatever form or fashion it takes.

For my family, Mother’s Day is a multi-generation affair. It gives rise to thoughts of the genetic influence that the female XX chromosome carries down through the generations — hence the neologism (or is it a portmanteau?), geneterations.

I’m dedicating this poem to Valeria Hlodan and Liudmila Yavkina, the mother and grandmother respectively of 3-month-old, Kira. All three were killed when a Russian missile struck their apartment building in Odesa, Ukraine on April, 23 2022. This Sunday would have been Valeria’s first Mother’s Day as a mother. I wrote a tribute poem for them last week –