This morning I turned on the TV to watch and remember the 9-11 attacks, that killed so many innocent people in New York City. There were comments and news bites, but the talking heads kept interrupting and distracting. Network TV went on with trivia as usual. As the Vice President delivered his remarks. only one network was watching. The rest had already moved on to old news! It just caught me the wrong way, so I decided to write a poem reflecting on my feelings of the morning.
Planes crashing into towers
New York City belching smoke
Americans at work
Oblivious
News trickles into tsunami
Eyes and Ears glued
Real-time terror
Quite different from
Video Games
Reality blended with tears
*
Flash forward…
Talk shows // Politics
Preempt memories
Horrors dressed in flowers
Commentators jabber
while Vice-President speaks
Dead names read
Unheard
*
Sad specifics
Too much for delicate ears
Might reignite fear and anger
More salacious news appeals
How sad when heroes
Go unrecognized
Soon to be forgotten
*
Replaced by
A magnificent tower
A fountain
A marble stone
engraved with names of lost
Loved ones still mourn
CNN regurgitates
President’s faux pas
******
Photo: Dwight L. Roth
very lovely tribute Dwight!!! It is a sad memory and my heart aches for those who lost so much and for our country! ❤️🙏
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Thank you Cindy! It is very sad. I remember it very clearly.
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I know, so sad but on a bright note one of my
God son’s birthday was on that day to lighten it up… ❤️
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Wonderful… That should help!
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It is a little hard to think about what happened then, when we are living the current, real nightmare that we are living through Right Now with the fires on the west coast. If your’re not where we are, I guess it must not be real.
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I can’t imagine what the west coast is going through. It must be awful to see the devastation.
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I hope that the lives lost on 9-11 and the heros who saved countless others at the expense of their own health will not be forgotten. I can’t help but wonder if we are currently witnessing such horror and loss of life we just can’t absorb anymore.
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I believe you are right… after too much insensitivity them feelings go into shock and shut down. It was a sad day that needs remembering … not talk!
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I agree. It was a tragic day that should be remembered with deep reflection–not talk!
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Yes!
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You have penned a very touching tribute to a terrible event 🌹🌹🌹
It also sounds like news channels and reporting is in the same state everywhere in the world, with talking reporters who overshadow everything else with their own image in the foreground.
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That is exactly what was going on. Somehow they think their opinion is more important than what is actually going on. Thank you for sharing.
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A compelling tribute … well done Dwight…
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Thank you Ivor. It is sad when a moment gets lost in distractions!
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An aging thing… I think.. 🤔🌏
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Yes, much gets lost in time. It takes and effort to remember.
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An interesting piece by Leonard Cohen!
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Indeed. 🌏🙂
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Your heart-touching poem tribute to 9-11 captures it all, Dwight…remembering the shock, the horror, the emotions, the scenes forever etched in our minds and hearts….yes, we MUST remember, we MUST honor, we MUST always care.
(((HUGS)))
https://www.thecity.nyc/2020/9/10/21431746/how-many-9-11-survivors-have-died-of-covid-19
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Thank your for understanding and commenting on this. Your article on 9-11 and Covid19 is very sad to see.
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Very movingly evoked tribute
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