'Of Mothers and Memories' by jan-u-wine, with painting by Mary Cassatt.

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~ detail from Cassatt's "Mother and Child"


I chose jan-u-wine's short poem Of Mothers and Memories to be the last of the four parent poems because it "feels" last, like a summation of Frodo's feelings about his mother that survived the War, survived his decline after his return to the Shire, perhaps until the end of his sojourn in Tol Eressëa. ( Read more... )