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Free Verse · Poems About Mom

Sunday, Still

by The QuillOak Editors

1I still buy the biscuits you liked

2and don't eat them.

3On Sundays I tell you the week anyway:

4the garden, the kids, the burnt potatoes,

5out loud, in the kitchen,

6the way you'd have wanted it,

7all of it, and slowly.

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Sunday, Still
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The QuillOak Editors
Length
7 lines
Form
Free Verse
Themes
Poems About Mom, Grief, Family

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QuillOak originalSunday, Still, authored for QuillOak by The Quillery
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Full text · United States · reviewed 2026-07-18
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