Each week on Randy Seaver’s Genea-musings blog he has a post for Saturday night Genealogy fun. Because of the time difference, I have called my series Sunday Afternoon Genealogy Fun. This week’s mission was
1) Did you see Sunny Morton’s post titled Write Your Own “Where I’m From” Poem and Enter to Win FREE Genealogy Gems Membership! (11 November 2015) – you can win something on Genealogy Gems.
2) Write your own “Where I’m From” poem and enter the contest. You can see a sample format at http://www.swva.net/fred1st/wif.htm.
3) Share your poem on your own blog post, in a comment to this post, or on Facebook or Google+.
Here’s mine:
Mitcham, in the eastern Suburbs of Melbourne
Is where I grew up
Where city met country, and the best of both worlds
In a little blue house on a hill
With bushland all around
And a blue Holden car to match
Fun was had on that hill,
flying down on scooters and roller skates
and a billy cart dad made
from old pram wheels and an old crate
Where walks were fun,
with bushland and creeks
And the sound of bellbirds
and kookaburras in the gum trees
I come from a family
that prefer reading to talking
With a family of 7 girls
clothes were handed from sister to sister
and toys were shared by all
Where Christmas holidays were summer holidays
And to keep cool we went swimming
At the pool at our local primary school
Where a Christmas roast turned the house into an oven
And cooking outdoors could cause disastrous results
Where holidays combined fun in the sun and surf
And helping with pea picking on the family farm
From there, all over the suburbs of Melbourne I trekked
From the east at Ferntree Gully
To way out west in Little River
And then in the middle at Coburg,
then Preston and Reservoir
Numurkah, in Northern Victoria is where I now live
With houses over the road and on either side
With farmland over the back fence
And kookaburras and cockatoos nesting in the gum trees
