Amazon The Book of Hope & The World Healing Book Beyond Borders Category:  Sept 11, 2001 Publisher: Beyond Borders ISBN-10:  997995311x Type: Fiction Pages: 160 Copyright: May 17 2002 A gathering of writers, artists & spiritual leaders from around the world. For The Victims Of September 11, 2001 beneath the rubble and debris down the shafts of steel and concrete far from autos yet abandoned past grey clouds of soot and dust below the boots of feet still shuffling crushed against the tumbled walls only God can hear the moaning see the souls drift to the light someone calls out to an old friend but the old friend can't reply and the day grows old to nightfall all the weary trudge on home but down beneath the broken sidewalk in the darkness of ground zero only God can hear the moaning see the souls drift to the light one by one He guides them upward past the billows of thick smoke one by one they say, "Forgive them," and like night birds fly to freedom fly these souls above the city to a heaven celebrating someone calls out to an old friend to an old friend recognized oh, the joy of souls rejoicing as they dance in God's Good Light. Salvatore Amico M. Buttaci USA

Review of The World Healing Book: International Poetry in a
Collective Voice of Hope, Birgitta Jonsdottir, Editor
- Including works by His Holiness The Dalai Lama, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Rita Dove and Ron Whitehead, The Book Of Hope is a magnificent collection of poems with one aim, to bring hope and love to this stricken world. Hope is one of those things that not everyone in the world can take for granted. When living through a day, sun up to sun down is an achievement; hope can be nothing more than life itself.
From the mass graves of Rwanda, Sudan, and those we know about and those we don't, is it too much to think that poetry can change a brutal dictatorship or a hand raised back in anger? I'm not sure, but there is always Hope, with hope, peace will come later, one thing at a time, one poem at a time. -




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