Friday, May 13, 2016

 

Haiku Friday: Family Legends

 

Every family has them: those old stories that might be true... and might not be. Yet they continue on as legend from one generation to the next.  

Let's haiku about those this week. Here, I will go first:

Sir William Osler
Are we related or not?
It's guess-ology.

Now it is your turn! Just put your family legend into the 5/7/5 syllable format, and have some fun!


# posted by Mark Osler @ 12:00 AM
Comments:
My Dad once told me
You're a Norwegian Princess
Like I believed that...
# posted by Blogger Christine : 7:42 AM
 
They said that our house
Was built on cemetery
Land. We haunted it.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 8:41 AM
 
My Grammy was spry
She practiced tai chi. Until
She was ninety-nine.
# posted by Blogger Jeremy : 9:05 AM
 
My father's life work:
Genealogic legends
Graveyards, libraries
# posted by Blogger IPLawguy : 9:44 AM
 
R Brooke - Emigrant
Left England when Charles lost head
Safe in Maryland

T.Brooke - Committee
of Correspondents, support
for Revolution

Clement Brooke - Merchant
Jefferson embargo -Ouch!
Fresh Start, Ohio

William Lee Brooke
Ft. McHenry Defender
Star Spangled Banner

Thomas G. Brooke
Ohio, Fought for Union
at Shiloh, Vicksburg



# posted by Blogger IPLawguy : 9:56 AM
 
That violin, they
say, a Stradivarius.
Now it's long, long gone.
# posted by Blogger Megan Willome : 11:06 AM
 
Grandmother Nolley
birthed son in the wee hours, picked
cotton after noon

# posted by Blogger A Waco Farmer : 11:37 AM
 
Astronomer Hall (Asaph),
Discovered Phobos, moon of
Mars. Had nice beard!

# posted by Anonymous CraigA : 1:07 PM
 
Grandma's crooked cane
Was made from the bones of
Her vanquished rivals.
# posted by Anonymous Anonymous : 3:02 PM
 
Grandma's great-grandma
was "hunnert percent In'dun"
Or so they told us
# posted by Blogger Jill Scoggins : 3:04 PM
 
My grandfather said
He had gators in attic.
Slept one eye open!
# posted by Anonymous Seraphim : 3:27 PM
 
Mom is Scots-Irish
Says her ancestor was a
Tutor to Mary,

Queen of Scots. Or
Was it Mary Tudor? Best
Part: makes Mom happy.

# posted by Blogger SillyAmerican : 12:35 AM
 
After Mom was born--
A Saturday afternoon--
Doctor rushed to golf,

She thinks, because he
Filed no birth certificate!
Managed without one

Until sixty-five.
# posted by Blogger SillyAmerican : 12:49 AM
 
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