Free Verse · Poems About Mom
Bake Until Done
The recipe says "bake until done,"
because you never measured,
you just knew —
the way you knew I'd failed the test,
needed gas money, fallen in love,
before I'd finished saying "hi, Mom."
I'm following your card tonight.
It doesn't say how much of you to add.
I'm adding all of it.
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Quick facts
- Poem
- Bake Until Done
- Poet
- The QuillOak Editors
- Length
- 9 lines
- Form
- Free Verse
- Themes
- Poems About Mom, Family, Love
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- The QuillOak Editorstoday
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- QuillOak originalBake Until Done, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
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- Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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- Editorial handling
- Whitespace and stanza breaks normalized for web display; no material wording change recorded.
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