The Power of Words - Summoning up the Absentees by Michael Rosen

Poem by Michael Rosen to mark Holocaust Memorial Day 2018
There are gaps
there are blanks
in the house
of my life
there's a face
nothing more
something gone
from my life
She was here
he was there
in the rooms
of my life
there's a place
for them both
in the words
of my life.
This poem was commissioned by Helen Weinstein, Director of Historyworks. Michael Rosen and Helen Weinstein and her team at Historyworks are working with a wide range of primary and secondary schools to engage young people with the atrocities of the past and to recall missing people in their own words, writing poetry and narratives and songs for this year's theme of this year's HMD which is 'The Power of Words'.
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