Only one day left to send your submissions in for the Great Genealogy Poetry Challenge
The
deadline is midnight tomorrow night, Thursday, November 16th. Don't forget to send
me the link to your post!
These are the Challenge rules:
1. Find a poem by a poet, famous or obscure, about the region
one of your ancestors lived in. It can be about an historical event, a
legend, a person, or even about some place (like a river)or a local
animal. It can even be a poem you or one of your ancestors have written.
0r, if you prefer, post the lyrics of a song or a link to a video of someone
performing the song.
2. Post the poem or song to your blog (remembering to cite the source
where you found it.). If you wish to enter an older post, you may as long
as it has not appeared here in an earlier Poetry Challenge.
3.Tell us how the subject of the poem or song relates to your ancestor's
home or life, or the area of the country where they lived.
4.Submit your post's link here to me by midnight Thursday, November 16th
and I'll publish all links to the entries on Thanksgiving Day, November 23rd!
If you submit a humorous poem or song that will be entered under the
"Willy Puckerbrush" division. Willy was the late geneablogger Terry
Thornton's alias for some humorous posts and comments.
Hi Bill, I finally did one of these, thanks for the reminder post.
ReplyDeleteSee http://www.geneamusings.com/2017/11/the-wreck-of-hesperus-by-henry.html for "The Wreck of the Hesperus" by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. I have three generations of the early Norman family of St. Ann, Salem and Marblehead, fishermen and shipwrights.
HOME TO BAYERN
ReplyDeleteMy grandfather
never missed
the hills of Franken,
He never walked the streets
of Reckendorf,
his family “hometown,”
He would have been amazed
to see the things
his father took for granted.
He did not learn,
“Gross Gott,”
as the proper greeting,
Nor did he plow
the family fields
of Bayern.
He lived
a continent away
and never knew his family.
A grandson went,
a century after,
to find the home and people;
His heart leapt
and wept for joy
in reunion.
Deutscher und Amerikaner:
alles ein Famalia –
It’s been so long…
IN FRANKEN
The little shrine by the way
with a history no one knows –
“It’s been there forever,”
like the mountains.
The land is dotted
with these little shrines,
Markers of devotion
and symbols of their faith.
They add a richness to the land,
a reminder to us now:
This land you see
is more than dirt and trees,
It embraces the souls
past more than we will know;
people lived and died and prayed
as some day you will too:
Continue on your day –
beyond this mortal life.
Two poems about my ancestral village in Bavaria, published in 2005 in Prairies of Possibilities, a collection of poems of mine.
- Duane L. Herrmann
Slipping in under the wire this year:
ReplyDeleteCry of the Foreign Born - by Leah Rachel Clara Yoffie (1883-1956)
http://blog.transylvaniandutch.com/2017/11/poem-cry-of-foreign-born-by-st-louis.html
Hi, Bill. I submitted my post for the genealogy poetry challenge on Wednesday but I don't see it in the comment section for this post or the other about the challenge. I hope it was not lost and I hope I can still participate. The link to my post is http://nancysfamilyhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2017/11/matilda-toots-for-2017-great-genealogy.html. Thanks so much.
ReplyDelete