In 2014 I featured a series of blog posts introducing you to 2,014 names. For the most part they were names that were brand new to me as well. Some names may be more familiar but I found the meaning or origin or some other aspect of the name made it worthy of inclusion here. You may love some of the names, you may hate some, but hopefully you enjoy learning about all of them.

Tuesday, September 14, 2021

R You Ready For New Names?

GIRLS


Renetta - this was pronounced 'rah nett ah". But for the pronunciation, I would think it was a form of Renata. This was someone on a housing tv show.


BOYS


Raynell

Sunday, September 12, 2021

Why Didn't You Speak?

Why Didn't You Speak? 

Mattie M. Boteler


When the pain of bitter bereavement

Has filled another with grief, 

You wished that a portion of comfort

Might bring him needed relief,

But never a word did you utter

To lighten the sky that was bleak.

It was well enough that you pitied, 

But, Brother, why didn't you speak?


You have seen the giddy and thoughtless

Ensnared by the things that must blight;

You have feared that the footsteps unwary

Take hold on the portals of night.

You counted the risk he was taking 

Too costly for one that was weak.

You were conscious of all of his danger

But, Brother, why didn't you speak?


You have thought of some friend that has helped you

Along your pathway thus far.

You know that, because of his kindness,

Today you're the man that you are.

The tenderest feelings have stirred you, 

And teardrops have moistened your cheek

As you thought of all that you owed him,

But, Brother, why didn't you speak?


Published in Silver Linings: Poems of Hope and Cheer, 1927