Three Cheers To Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis

Momma mia man date comb

the second Sunday during month of May

can be traced back to ancient Greeks and Romans

festivals held to honor mother goddesses

Rhea and Cybele setting precedent for Mother's Day

where early Christians fancied festival

known as “Mothering Sunday.”

Fast forward to the early twentieth century 1908

when Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis (a social activist then,

and community organizer

during American Civil War) era to quieten

grief fraught era also cited

as informally memorializing her mother,

who begot said noble men touring daughter

paying homage to woebegone

lachrymose role with accolades

to endure tragedy and loss

put upon childbearing women,

this event held (rain or sun)

at St Andrew's Methodist Church

in Grafton, West Virginia, which did quicken

in subsequent decades to formal fete,

where poets (like me) did open

the special occasion with

ranked midshipmen commercialization cropped as ken

be expected by the early 1920's imbolden

greeting card companies such as Hallmark gen

er rated a market (money making of course) even

though Jarvis believed companies sought profit

NOT prophet, thus misinterpreting

and exploiting idea of Mother's Day and met

aforementioned founder, who tried to jet

tis sin the vulgar appetite

of the ole mighty dollar,

but her lofty ambition did get thwarted

by mass marketing the quaint idea,

plus she feared going in debt

and though the industry

(initially proposed entailed

low key acknowledgement,

the originator (Ann Marie Jarvis) still esteemed,

lionized, revered re

formed unsanitary living conditions

with zee less ness and aplomb

set a course where greater longevity doth hum

all because, she sought to regale "mum."