pickThese poems take on new meaning when you know they are meant to be a balm that soothes the souls of children who witnessed the attacks on the Twin Towers from the windows of their Manhattan classrooms.
G. Brian Karas‘s illustration for Dickinson‘s Hope is the Thing with Feathers
#MadonnaNovember #I‘llRemember
I‘ll remember: I was working in a school the day of the Challenger explosion.The kindergarteners were watching on TV the first teacher, Christa McAuliffe, go into space.Then the unimaginable happened.- the shuttle looked to be engulfed in flames, broke up, & fell out of the sky. Students created a book to express their reactions. Tagged book are poems compiled in hopes of comforting children post 9/11.
#PoetryMatters #November #25 #Heart
Oh, keep a place apart
Within your heart,
For little dreams to go.
—-Louise Driscoll
pick#OctoberPutASpellOnYou Day 12: This collection of 18 poems was put together by Georgia Heard during the wake of the World Trade Center Tragedy to provide some semblance of meaning to young people who have witnessed and lived through this cataclysmic event - like lighting a #Candle for those who died and lived/endured it. I am sharing one of my faves from the collection: Wendell Berry, of course. My full review: https://wp.me/pDlzr-9tZ
"Do what you will, but strengthen the things that remain." - Nancy Wood
Georgia Heard , at request of superintendent of District 2 in Manhattan, compiled poems of comfort to be read to NYC children who had witnessed the collapse of the Twin Towers on 9/12. Thought book appropriate for #shadesofblue #somethingforsept
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This Place I Know: Poems of Comfort | 
