My Mom was an Artist


With the stroke of her brush

She created five beautiful pictures

She worked daily to make her work better

Like most artist do

After years of stroking them

She knew the time had come for her

Too unravel her creation

For others to see.

One by one she displayed her work

Until all five had been unleashed

My mom was an Artist” and her work

lives on in the faces of her five Adult kids.

Copyright © by Shirley Gerald Ware


Shirley is the author of eight books, seven are published and the eighty is scheduled for publication 2017. She is the publlisher of Fresh! Literary Magazine and she is credited for writing poems, short stories, book reviews and articles.