Friday, May 11, 2018

Poetry Friday: Billy Collins Thanks My Mom For Me

Billy Collins, reading "The Lanyard": 


(Yeah. For me, it was a potholder.) 

Happy Mother's Day, Mom. 

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9 comments:

Michelle Heidenrich Barnes said...

Ha! When I wrote my post yesterday, I predicted I wouldn't be the only one celebrating Mother's Day with Billy Collins. :D At least we didn't share the exact same video, Karen. LOL Happy Mother's Day!

Karen Edmisten said...

LOL! It's just too perfect, isn't it, Michelle? :)
Happy Mother's Day!

jama said...

How I love this poem. And for me, it was also a potholder!!! :)

Michelle Kogan said...

Billy Collins' deadpan reading just adds more to this wonderful poem!

Kay said...

I'm enjoying this poem each time I encounter it today. For me it was craft projects from Girl Scouts--a lopsided clay bowl comes to mind as well as bottles and boxes covered with torn masking tape and daubed with shoe polish to look like leather--sort of.

Ruth said...

Billy is just the best, isn't he?

Linda B said...

I don't mind seeing another of Billy reading, Karen. It is the perfect poem for mothers. Happy Mother's Day!

Alice Nine said...

Love this poem. For me it was also potholders--colorful ones, woven with a hook on a metal loom.

Mary Lee said...

Potholders for me, too!