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!
My Dad once told me
ReplyDeleteYou're a Norwegian Princess
Like I believed that...
They said that our house
ReplyDeleteWas built on cemetery
Land. We haunted it.
My Grammy was spry
ReplyDeleteShe practiced tai chi. Until
She was ninety-nine.
My father's life work:
ReplyDeleteGenealogic legends
Graveyards, libraries
R Brooke - Emigrant
ReplyDeleteLeft 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
That violin, they
ReplyDeletesay, a Stradivarius.
Now it's long, long gone.
Grandmother Nolley
ReplyDeletebirthed son in the wee hours, picked
cotton after noon
Astronomer Hall (Asaph),
ReplyDeleteDiscovered Phobos, moon of
Mars. Had nice beard!
Grandma's crooked cane
ReplyDeleteWas made from the bones of
Her vanquished rivals.
Grandma's great-grandma
ReplyDeletewas "hunnert percent In'dun"
Or so they told us
My grandfather said
ReplyDeleteHe had gators in attic.
Slept one eye open!
Mom is Scots-Irish
ReplyDeleteSays her ancestor was a
Tutor to Mary,
Queen of Scots. Or
Was it Mary Tudor? Best
Part: makes Mom happy.
After Mom was born--
ReplyDeleteA Saturday afternoon--
Doctor rushed to golf,
She thinks, because he
Filed no birth certificate!
Managed without one
Until sixty-five.