I love you mummy
In April, Children’s Vision had a competition where you had to send Mother’s Day poems to The New Vision. Thank you for sending us your lovely poems. Of the best eight poems, a raffle was made and the best two poems were chosen. The winners are <b>Miriam Akello</b> and <b>Gilbert Ssettuma</b>. (
In April, Children’s Vision had a competition where you had to send Mother’s Day poems to The New Vision. Thank you for sending us your lovely poems. Of the best eight poems, a raffle was made and the best two poems were chosen. The winners are Miriam Akello and Gilbert Ssettuma. (Their poems are marked with stars.) Miriam and Gilbert are invited together with their mothers for a Mother’s Day dinner at Hotel Africana on Sunday May 13 at 7:00pm.
Oh Oh Oh
I love my mum
God bless my mum
Long live mum
Mummy pays my school fees.
She cares for me when I am sick
Mummy prepares for me food.
She buys for me a big birthday cake.
Mummy buys for me toy cars and bicycles.
She lays my bed and puts up my mosquito net.
Mummy is everything
Thank you God.
For the gift of my mother.
I will buy for her a very nice card.
I will give her a big bom lollipop.
I will fight and struggle
To be the winner each term.
I will mop her bedroom and water your flowers.
She will love me forever.
Thank you mummy.
Gilbert Ssettuma
P 2, six years, Buyala Junior School
HER infectious smiles connect to her eyes
With the beauty of a thousand sunsets.
She turns bitter and tough into sweet
She considers wrong as a mistake.
Her eyes twinkle like two stars in a dark night
Her ebony black hair feels like dazzling silk that
Flows down her long graceful neck like a river
Her kindness is infectious like a true goddess
Of peace and
Her heart is full of generosity.
But sometimes,
She is tough like an ox
She is chemically-neutralised
Physically distilled
Really wild like a bull,
But she still remains my loving, beautiful and my
African mother.
Miriam Akello
10 years
Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
How wonderful you are to me!
A balanced diet to me you provide!
You help me to perform well at school
Good advice you offer to me
You let me go to bed in time.
Oh Mummy! You are so wonderful.
Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
The name I want to hear all the time
How lovely are you to me!
Good clothes for me you buy!
Health tips to me you give
Mummy you are so sweet to me.
How I long to be with you all the time.
Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
How good you are at time-keeping
You make sure I do all things in time.
You give time to play.
Time to read books I also get.
Nice and educative games you teach me.
Oh! You are so wonderful.
I don’t know how I will pay back.
What a good parent you are mummy!
You teach me to do housework, cooking, sweeping, mopping and washing.
Good personal hygiene you have taught me!
Now I am a good citizen fitting in all societies.
Mummy you are so sweet and so wonderful.
What shall I pay you mummy everlasting life I suppose
Oh! But I am not God.
Only prayers can work
May the almighty keep you forever. Long live mummy.
Have a nice Mother’s Day.
Mercy Masika
P.4, 10 years,
SOS Hermann Gmiener
Mother Mother Mother
My only mother in this world.
There is nothing as good as mum
There is not a thing as dear as mum
Who provides me parental support
You gave me medical care to protect me from diseases
You are my guide.
Mother Mother Mother
There is nothing as pleasant as mum
There isn’t any other thing like
Mother that calls for such attention like mother.
Mother Mother Mother
There’s a lot mum has done to save my life
She bathed me when I was young
She sweeps my room and she boiled drinking water.
I pray that mum should have everlasting life.
Margaret Gila
P.6
Christ the King primary School
Mummy Mummy
Mummy How lovely you are.
Mummy, the person I can’t forget in my life.
You loved me so much, when I was a little girl, you breastfed me.
You helped me to learn how to walk, eat, talk, write and greet.
You would not sleep when I fell sick.
You protected me from
my enemies.
I did many bad things but you didn’t reject me.
Your love and care is as sweet as honey.
I cannot pay you back but I love you.
May God bless you
Have a nice Mother’s Day.
Pamela Kwagala
SOS Herman Gmeiner School
Oh my mum, Oh my mum
You are a gift from God
You carried me for nine months.
Through labour pains you gave birth to me.
Oh my mum, Oh my mum
You carried me until I learnt how to walk
You taught me where to go for nature’s call.
Oh my mum, Oh my mum
I have learnt prayers with your help
I am now churched
I am now churched
Oh my lovely mum
Oh my lovely mum.
Fiona Mary
P.3, Mwiri primary School Jinja
Mother of mothers
The most beautiful lady in the whole world.
Mother who is like you?
You are the best teacher
You taught me the first word “mamaâ€.
You are
The best lover
The security guard
The care-taker.
The doctor
The one who makes me smart
The only lady who is there for me.
To care for me mother.
You are the one who makes me smart
I love you so much
I know I am your child and you love me.
God is Good
Daisy Kwagala
SOS Hermann Gmiener
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift can I give you?
My heart, my body, my soul?
What gift do you deserve?
You deserve all the things I have.
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift do you deserve?
For nine months you carried me.
You never aborted me nor took drugs to kill me
You are a gift
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift do you deserve?
When I was in pain,
You stopped working to look after me.
You are gold in sunshine.
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift do you deserve?
You are always at my bedside
To look after me when I am sick
You share my happiness and sorrow
May you live longer!
Leticia Mutumba
P 5 Robins
Namagunga Primary Boarding School
Oh Oh Oh
I love my mum
God bless my mum
Long live mum
Mummy pays my school fees.
She cares for me when I am sick
Mummy prepares for me food.
She buys for me a big birthday cake.
Mummy buys for me toy cars and bicycles.
She lays my bed and puts up my mosquito net.
Mummy is everything
Thank you God.
For the gift of my mother.
I will buy for her a very nice card.
I will give her a big bom lollipop.
I will fight and struggle
To be the winner each term.
I will mop her bedroom and water your flowers.
She will love me forever.
Thank you mummy.
Gilbert Ssettuma
P 2, six years, Buyala Junior School
HER infectious smiles connect to her eyes
With the beauty of a thousand sunsets.
She turns bitter and tough into sweet
She considers wrong as a mistake.
Her eyes twinkle like two stars in a dark night
Her ebony black hair feels like dazzling silk that
Flows down her long graceful neck like a river
Her kindness is infectious like a true goddess
Of peace and
Her heart is full of generosity.
But sometimes,
She is tough like an ox
She is chemically-neutralised
Physically distilled
Really wild like a bull,
But she still remains my loving, beautiful and my
African mother.
Miriam Akello
10 years
Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
How wonderful you are to me!
A balanced diet to me you provide!
You help me to perform well at school
Good advice you offer to me
You let me go to bed in time.
Oh Mummy! You are so wonderful.
Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
The name I want to hear all the time
How lovely are you to me!
Good clothes for me you buy!
Health tips to me you give
Mummy you are so sweet to me.
How I long to be with you all the time.
Mummy, Mummy, Mummy
How good you are at time-keeping
You make sure I do all things in time.
You give time to play.
Time to read books I also get.
Nice and educative games you teach me.
Oh! You are so wonderful.
I don’t know how I will pay back.
What a good parent you are mummy!
You teach me to do housework, cooking, sweeping, mopping and washing.
Good personal hygiene you have taught me!
Now I am a good citizen fitting in all societies.
Mummy you are so sweet and so wonderful.
What shall I pay you mummy everlasting life I suppose
Oh! But I am not God.
Only prayers can work
May the almighty keep you forever. Long live mummy.
Have a nice Mother’s Day.
Mercy Masika
P.4, 10 years,
SOS Hermann Gmiener
Mother Mother Mother
My only mother in this world.
There is nothing as good as mum
There is not a thing as dear as mum
Who provides me parental support
You gave me medical care to protect me from diseases
You are my guide.
Mother Mother Mother
There is nothing as pleasant as mum
There isn’t any other thing like
Mother that calls for such attention like mother.
Mother Mother Mother
There’s a lot mum has done to save my life
She bathed me when I was young
She sweeps my room and she boiled drinking water.
I pray that mum should have everlasting life.
Margaret Gila
P.6
Christ the King primary School
Mummy Mummy
Mummy How lovely you are.
Mummy, the person I can’t forget in my life.
You loved me so much, when I was a little girl, you breastfed me.
You helped me to learn how to walk, eat, talk, write and greet.
You would not sleep when I fell sick.
You protected me from
my enemies.
I did many bad things but you didn’t reject me.
Your love and care is as sweet as honey.
I cannot pay you back but I love you.
May God bless you
Have a nice Mother’s Day.
Pamela Kwagala
SOS Herman Gmeiner School
Oh my mum, Oh my mum
You are a gift from God
You carried me for nine months.
Through labour pains you gave birth to me.
Oh my mum, Oh my mum
You carried me until I learnt how to walk
You taught me where to go for nature’s call.
Oh my mum, Oh my mum
I have learnt prayers with your help
I am now churched
I am now churched
Oh my lovely mum
Oh my lovely mum.
Fiona Mary
P.3, Mwiri primary School Jinja
Mother of mothers
The most beautiful lady in the whole world.
Mother who is like you?
You are the best teacher
You taught me the first word “mamaâ€.
You are
The best lover
The security guard
The care-taker.
The doctor
The one who makes me smart
The only lady who is there for me.
To care for me mother.
You are the one who makes me smart
I love you so much
I know I am your child and you love me.
God is Good
Daisy Kwagala
SOS Hermann Gmiener
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift can I give you?
My heart, my body, my soul?
What gift do you deserve?
You deserve all the things I have.
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift do you deserve?
For nine months you carried me.
You never aborted me nor took drugs to kill me
You are a gift
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift do you deserve?
When I was in pain,
You stopped working to look after me.
You are gold in sunshine.
Mother, Mother, Mother!
What kind of gift do you deserve?
You are always at my bedside
To look after me when I am sick
You share my happiness and sorrow
May you live longer!
Leticia Mutumba
P 5 Robins
Namagunga Primary Boarding School