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Monday, 13 September 2010

Genealogy

Six degrees of separation
Six degrees they say
Separate any two folk
Alive this present day

Tracing back on paper

From me, them all, to you
Teasing out life stories
Linking old with new

Tide of names, no faces

A lifetime in a line
Condensed into a birthday
A job or heinous crime

Copperplate offers secrets

To mould round those you knew
The spiderweb progressing
Does family ties renew

Odd names become the foci

Historic Pannini cards
Ready-offered swapsies
To relate another’s shards

Who knows what they did?

Who knows who they were?
Who knows what they stood for?
The seekers strive to care

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