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Three cheers to Ann Maria Reeves Jarvis

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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 
     child bearing 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."

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