The Power of Family Stories in Poetry
Begin to Pen Poems About Your Family History
When my mother died, she left plenty of objects behind, but no written stories. She never talked about her childhood or anything about her ancestors. I had to reconstruct stories from objects she left behind--photographs, dolls, postcards, and even plane tickets. I am a genealogist (family historian), so I knew to dive into online records and actual cemeteries to fill in portions of her story, even while she was living…