The Influenza, 1890 - Winston Churchill, age 15 Oh how shall I its deeds recount Or measure the untold amount Of ills that it has done? Fr...

1492 Emma Lazarus, (1849 - 1887) Thou two-faced year, Mother of Change and Fate, Didst weep when Spain cast forth with flaming sword, T...

The below poem of mine was entered into the 2016 International Society of Family History Writers and Editors Excellence-in-Writing competiti...

Sepia Saturday  -  A weekly meme providing a visual prompt for participants to share their own photographs.  (I'm going to share some ...

Sepia Saturday - A weekly meme providing a visual prompt for participants to share their own photographs. (I'm going to share poetr...

Sepia Saturday - A weekly meme providing a visual prompt for participants to share their own photographs. (I'm going to share some poet...

I wrote this poem five years ago. George Van Every, the first son of my second great grandparents, Samuel and Abigail (Stuart) Van Every, ...

Robert Graves is well-known for his poetry, close to 50 collections were published during his lifetime, and his novels, including, I Claudi...

It's been over a year since I decided to share a genealogically-related poem on a Friday. Here's one by New Englander, Thomas Bail...

The Midnight Ride of William Dawes  - by Helen F Moore (1896) I am a wandering, bitter shade, Never of me was a hero made; Poets have n...

Jefferson Howard - Edgar Lee Masters (from Spoon River Anthology ) MY valiant fight! For I call it valiant, With my father’s beliefs fro...

WRITTEN IN JANUARY, 1833 The old year is gone--so uncivil was I, That I made not a couplet to bid him good bye, But now that the new yea...

The below poem is read at many funerals. It has been attributed to several sources, but more about that below. What is Dying? I am stan...

Trinity Place - Carl Sandburg - from "Smoke and Steel" (1922) The grave of Alexander Hamilton is in Trinity yard at the end of ...

I am an aficionado of poetry. I enjoy reading, writing, and performing  the art. In the past six years I have devoted several blog posts to ...

Edgar Guest's sentimental poetry is perfect for the season.  Many people object to the mention of Christmas prior to Thanksgiving, but t...

To-Morrow Edgar Guest He was going to be all that a mortal should be To-morrow. No one should be kinder or braver than he To-morrow. A frien...

Born on November 13, 1850, Robert Louis Stevenson would be 159 years old today. Perhaps known best for his novels Treasure Island, Kidnappe...

My third and final entry for the Great American Local Poem Genealogy Challenge The challenge is to: Find a poem by a local poet, famous or o...

Second submission for West in New England's Great American Local Poem Genealogy Challenge T.S. Eliot was born in St. Louis, Missouri in ...