April 7: Happy National Poetry Month!
I am celebrating Poetry Month by pairing quotes about poetry with images. Usually I share these without commentary.
However, I felt this photograph and quote required commentary.
I took this photo during our Ancestral Trip when we visited numerous graves of my husband’s ancestors, graves that dated as far back as the 1600s.
Graves in graveyards from 17th and 18th centuries often had headstones and footstones. Headstones mark the head of a grave with engrave information that identifies the deceased, while footstones are smaller, secondary markers placed at the opposite end, often inscribed with initials. Although this was not the grave of one of our ancestors, we stopped to read the headstone and take a picture of the tree that grew up out of the grave between its headstone and footstone. ( I think there is a poem in this picture.)
This quote inspired me to write “Finding Captain Jeremiah Stiles” … a slice of our journey to visit the resting places of ancestors who lived 400 years ago.
In a #PoetryFriday post, I shared a poem that I found in the words Seamus Heaney (from a transcription of an interview). You can read the poem and the back story in my post “Poetry Stirs Our Humanity.”
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