{"id":1603,"date":"2011-09-11T10:07:47","date_gmt":"2011-09-11T14:07:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/?p=1603"},"modified":"2011-09-11T10:07:47","modified_gmt":"2011-09-11T14:07:47","slug":"poetry-memory-911","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/beginnersheart\/2011\/09\/poetry-memory-911.html","title":{"rendered":"poetry, memory &amp; 9\/11 ~"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/beginnersheart\/files\/2011\/09\/fire-and-ash2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-1609\" src=\"https:\/\/wp-media.beliefnet.com\/sites\/239\/2011\/09\/fire-and-ash2-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a>Sometimes only poetry suffices&#8230; When my mind refuses to comprehend hatred, murder, war and profound grief, poetry is a map to somewhere out of fire and ash. A map through the darkness to a light that may still be a long way off. Even now ~<\/p>\n<p>Here are other, better words remembering the ongoing tragedy which began for so many people that fateful September 11th, 2001. Thank you, Philip Metres and the Poetry Foundation &#8212; one of my favourite organisations &#8212; for reminding me that poetry is more than words. It can also be music that begins healing, records injustice. It can be a voice for those who are silent.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/john-lundberg\/remembering-911-through-p_b_712416.html\">http:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/article\/242580<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sometimes only poetry suffices&#8230; When my mind refuses to comprehend hatred, murder, war and profound grief, poetry is a map to somewhere out of fire and ash. A map through the darkness to a light that may still be a long way off. 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