poet2rhyme4tommorrow

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  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 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.\"