A Tapestry to Tell: Poems 1501 - 2000 is an excerpt of a much larger collection of short, rhyming poetry from the author T.P. Russell. The poems are mostly introspective ponderings on life and the world we live in, and were written over the course of many years with no initial goal of publication. They each originated as a lyrical thought that caught the author attention, then built upon themselves until they needed to be written down. This work is the first of four books of poetry to be published from that collection.