My mother poem by juan salazar biography

I wish to write of my mother,
My mother loving and kind,
Who to me, more than any other,
Is the idol of my mind.


She cared for me in my girlhood
With a care that can never be told
And that love in the years of womanhood
Is even more precious than gold.


Born on July 6, 1940 in Lopez, Quezon to Teodorico Capanzana and Inez Villegas, my mother, Lucita, is a mestiza with the tapered nose and fair complexion.

She is the eight in a brood of eleven, with five brothers and five sisters.

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I do not know much about her childhood except for the little stories she shared at the dinner table from time to time. She did so especially when she gets exasperated with the grumblings we made about the food on the table. She told us that she was barely a toddler when the war broke out; food was scarce, and if there were any, she had to share it with her siblings.

So, my mother had all of her children appreciate whatever food there was on the table --- adobong kangkong, saluyot, alugba