<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><entry xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1384890026180269644.post-3210294644695116822</id><published>2009-05-01T15:28:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-01T15:39:56.377-07:00</updated><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mothers Poems'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Mothers Day Poems'/><category scheme='http://www.blogger.com/atom/ns#' term='Poetry Submissions from Other Authors'/><title type='text'>Mothers Monologue - by Leandra Gebrakedan</title><content type='html'>&lt;em&gt;&lt;h1&gt;Free Poems&lt;/h1&gt;&lt;/em&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight:bold;"&gt;Mothers Monologue&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Have you brushed your teeth.&lt;br /&gt;Have you done your homework.&lt;br /&gt;Have you chosen your options for your GCSE's.&lt;br /&gt;Have you sent your application to university.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Why are you so skinny, so busy studying to eat.&lt;br /&gt;Why haven't you visited  recently, have you met a nice girl.&lt;br /&gt;Why don't you let me babysit, give me a chance to spend time with the grandchildren.&lt;br /&gt; &lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to take them to Sunday school, you always loved it as a little boy.&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget to open a bank account for them, and remind them to put their pennies in the moneyjar.&lt;br /&gt;Don't forget me&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-style: italic;"&gt;Written by by Leandra Gebrakedan&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This poem can be used for free as long as the author's name is included.  If the poem is published online, please include a link to this post.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://freepoemsonline.blogspot.com/"&gt;http://freepoemsonline.blogspot.com&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;h5&gt;&lt;a href="http://freepoemsonline.blogspot.com/"&gt;Free Poems&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/h5&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1384890026180269644-3210294644695116822?l=freepoemsonline.blogspot.com'/&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://freepoemsonline.blogspot.com/feeds/3210294644695116822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='https://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1384890026180269644&amp;postID=3210294644695116822&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1384890026180269644/posts/default/3210294644695116822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1384890026180269644/posts/default/3210294644695116822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://freepoemsonline.blogspot.com/2009/05/mothers-monologue-by-leandra-gebrakedan.html' title='Mothers Monologue - by Leandra Gebrakedan'/><author><name>Anna</name><uri>http://www.blogger.com/profile/04660551089821141019</uri><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:extendedProperty xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' name='OpenSocialUserId' value='02838843442527075834'/></author><thr:total xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'>1</thr:total></entry>