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Mobile Photography / Art – Saturday Poetry – Lunchbox Love Note

As it is Mother’s Day tomorrow here in the UK, I thought it would be a good idea to team our Saturday Poetry theme with an appropriate poem. This one entitled, Lunchbox Love Note by Kenn Nesbitt seemed to fit the bill perfectly. It is a sweet poem about a young boy who discovers a heart shaped note in his lunchbox and ponders whether he may have a secret admirer or two. When he finally opens the note, after great suspense, he discovers the note is from his mother, just saying ‘I love you’. Having slipped many a note, with those exact words into my children’s lunchboxes when they were little, it warmed me, I am sure it probably embarrassed them and I hope it wasn’t a disappointment. Enjoy.

Source: The Poetry Foundation

I hope you enjoy this, I have matched @libredlinfamie’s image with this poem, it represents to me all the directions we, as mothers feel outselves pulled in at times. You can follow her on Instagram here.

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Lunchbox Love Note by Kenn Nesbitt

Inside my lunch

to my surprise

a perfect heart-shaped

love note lies.

 

The outside says,

“Will you be mine?”

and, “Will you be

my valentine?”

 

I take it out

and wonder who

would want to tell me

“I love you.”

 

Perhaps a girl

who’s much too shy

to hand it to me

eye to eye.

 

Or maybe it

was sweetly penned

in private by

a secret friend

 

Who found my lunchbox

sitting by

and slid the note in

on the sly.

 

Oh, I’d be thrilled

if it were Jo,

the cute one in

the second row.

 

Or could it be

from Jennifer?

Has she found out

I’m sweet on her?

 

My mind’s abuzz,

my shoulders tense.

I need no more

of this suspense.

 

My stomach lurching

in my throat,

I open up

my little note.

 

Then wham! as if

it were a bomb,

inside it reads,

“I love you—Mom.”

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