Tribute to a Mother

Tribute to a Mother
by Kathryn Kay

(Dedicated to my sister, Sylvia)

For that she will go down
in heaven’s shining hall of fame,
for the original designs and patterns she devised,
I pen this tribute, not in lines like those which bear her name,
for hers are life lines, earning the award most highly prized.
She writes straight from her pulsing heart, as only mothers can,
true authoress, the kind of writer just God can ordain.
Her poems, fashioned in God’s image, take their place with man,
the place that was made possible just thru a mother’s pain.
She knows in full the harsh demands of the career she chose
and twenty-four hours ev’ry day the most of herself gives
to make her verses perfect….Ev’ry so-called author knows
her poetry’s the only kind that ever really lives!

(If the Shoe Fits © 1941, reprinted with permission)

About the poet:

LDS poetess Kathryn Kay (Kathryn Worsley Pratt) was a popular radio announcer on the KFI radio show Midnight Frolic out of Los Angeles, California, a forerunner of today’s late night television broadcasts, from 1927 to 1930. She was also Associate Editor of “Parade” magazine before it became a Sunday supplement.

Kathryn began writing poetry at age 10 and has had three major poetry books published. Kathryn died in February 2005, but a new book of her poetry has been published with the title Goldfish Privacy and is available wherever LDS books are sold or on the Sheralynn Pratt website.

Read more about Kathryn Kay at her website.