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From: "sarah rose" <>
Subject: Re: [WCKY] Gen Mothers Day Poem
Date: Mon, 10 May 2004 08:12:39 -0700
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Marjorie,
You are very welcome for the poem. It is my pleasure to be able to share it
with everyone. I thought many would be able to relate to it. :-)
Sarah
poetry website: http://rosenet.net/poetryandroses/
genealogy website: http://genealogy2.com/




----- Original Message -----
From: "Edward L. Zuellig" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 5:47 PM
Subject: Re: [WCKY] Gen Mothers Day Poem


> Thanks very much for this lovely poem. Hope you had as wonderful Mother's
> Day as I did...........Marjorie
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "sarah rose" <>
> To: <>
> Sent: Sunday, May 09, 2004 1:35 PM
> Subject: [WCKY] Gen Mothers Day Poem
>
>
> > This genealogy poem is my gift to everyone for Mother's Day. I think
many
> of you will be able to relate to it. (My poetry has been published in 47
US
> States, and several other countries. )
> > My Poetry Website:
> > http://users.rosenet.net/poetryandroses/
> > (This remains one of my favorite poems)
> >
> > MY ANCESTOR GRAND MOTHER
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > I search for you yet do not even know your name
> >
> > I press on praying my efforts will prove fruitful
> >
> > the records do not list you or the other women who
> >
> > have lived and loved and laughed, gave birth, and died,
> >
> > the records perpetrate the myth that you were never here
> >
> > but I stand whole and bare my soul
> >
> > and vow to find you as I live
> >
> >
> >
> > I search for you in old records, in churches, at the Embassy,
> >
> > in small dimly lit rooms
> >
> > in the back of obscure libraries and archives
> >
> > and pour over barely readable handwritten ledgers
> >
> > with magnifying glass and flashlight
> >
> > I live on mainly toast these days
> >
> > there isn't time for meals or much sleep
> >
> > feeling as I always do, on the very brink of discovery
> >
> >
> >
> > Perhaps THIS will be the day I find the one
> >
> > seemingly insignificant clue, which will lead me to you
> >
> > although I did not find you listed in the Census Records
> >
> > I am not deterred, you may turn up yet,
> >
> > on an Immigration or Naturalization list somewhere perhaps,
> >
> > or maybe tucked away inside some bank of vital statistics,
> >
> > long forgotten like so many others,
> >
> > your name having become lost over the long years
> >
> >
> >
> > Your name could be lying even now
> >
> > amidst the millions of documents stored and locked away
> >
> > safeguarded in the bowels of a giant warehouse
> >
> > all stopped up from apathetic crowds
> >
> > who have long ceased their visits
> >
> > your precious name, lying just inside
> >
> > a myriad of records packed in tight, packed in to stay
> >
> > never guessing I would come
> >
> >
> >
> >
> @Sarah Elizabeth Rose
> >
> >
> >
> >
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