{"id":3123,"date":"2019-11-23T13:21:18","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:21:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vickygooden.com\/?p=3123"},"modified":"2019-11-23T13:23:05","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T13:23:05","slug":"those-mother-glances-a-poem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vickygooden.com\/index.php\/2019\/11\/23\/those-mother-glances-a-poem\/","title":{"rendered":"Those mother glances &#8211; a poem"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Not the disapproving ones you might read about in books or see in films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not simply the ones with eyes misty in love.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But the room temperature checkers, the comfort toy locators, the \u2018are they about to tumble\u2019 surveyors, the ingredients stock checkers, the time keepers, the weather gaugers, the rear view mirror performers, the bath water height measurers, the rash investigators, the \u2018are they sharing\u2019 wonderers, the shoe finders, the bestest yellow crayon searchers, the final check at night peekers, the midnight monitor monitors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Those mother glances.&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Not the disapproving ones you might read about in books or see in films.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The ones all seeing, with eyes misty in love.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Not the disapproving ones you might read about in books or see in films. 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