A Quilt Called "Ground Zero"
By Mary Cunningham
Memphis, TN

Quilts are made for covering and bringing comfort, too,
And some can capture memories of people close to you.
This special one with faces stirs me in my heart.
Could anyone who viewed it, not be torn apart?

So many lives were shattered by the tragic loss that day,
For the people behind the faces, no longer laugh or play.
Yet in the hearts of families, forever they will live,
And loving tributes like this quilt, to them will comfort give.

Respectfully they'll look on it, and perhaps they'll touch the face
Remembering the one they lost – so aware of the empty space.
So instead of lying 'neath it, such a quilt must be on display
To remind the world of the human loss, we suffered that horrible day.
 
 October 3rd 2002

Stitches of Healing
By Juile-Marie Egan
Potomac, MD

One idea,
Two hands,
Hundreds of minutes of work,
Thousands of faces,
Millions of lives changed forever,
Millions of threads of faith,
Thousands of stitches in healing,
Hundreds of viewers to help remember,
Two eyes to see and hear, what was, and, what is now,
One huge heart, a whisper of it's beat in time, to take all, put it together in
this way, God's very own breath.

 November 11th 2002

A Patchwork Quilt of so Many Faces
By Becki Westerman
Marietta, Ohio

A patchwork quilt of so many faces,
Happy and loving in other places.
Now enshrined in the fabric of love,
All smiling down from Heaven above.
They'll not be forgot by we who remain,
As we all share together their loved one's pain.
A patchwork quilt of so many faces,
Happy and loving in other places.

 February 2nd 2003

Quilt
by Mary Ellen Brenizer
Ferguson, Missouri

Quietly and softly expressing our sorrow,
Uniquely honoring lives given no time to borrow,
Intimately illustrating the dangers of hate,
Lovingly done as a treasure to celebrate,
Training us to be grateful for today as we may not be here tomorrow.

 July 31st 2003
 

Back To That Day
By Tracy L. Thompson
Keene, New Hampshire

Gaze at a bright star
Faces snap into focus
transporting us back

 September 27, 2003

God's Love is Like a Blanket
By Tom Bill
Angola, IN

All the 9-1-1 victims are God's Angels
Like little lambs sent on their way
Came knocking at the gates of Heaven
All called back home on that fateful day

And those of us - left behind
Standing - watching from life's shore
Find strength through Christ just knowing
They have walked through Heaven's door

God's love is like your blanket
Wrapped around our crying hearts
To bring us warmth and understanding
When our life somehow seems ripped apart

January 19, 2004

Thank You To The Team
By Deborah HL Scott
Socorro, New Mexico

Time and love and inspiration
Given by Lois to heal a nation
Jannis and Lydia downloading faces
Merry putting them each in their places
LoRaine and Clair did the banking
Thanks to Tom for computer cranking
Brenna's listening and handkerchief
Together they salve America's grief

January 24, 2004

STITCHING MEMORIES
 by Ruth Hudson Savage
 Arlington Texas
 
 So many faces, so many lives,
 so many empty graves
 but here on this quilt their memory survives
 and lives on in timeless days.
 Each one, a hero in the hearts of mankind
 as the miraculous quilt portrays.

January 30, 2004

Spirit Quilt
by K.E. Komich
Randolph, Mass

Why have my hands been taught to sew,
To speak without the sound.
I feel my spirit searching,
With spirits from hallowed ground.

Their faces there before me,
Are asking me to sew.
How it will turn out,
I really didn't know.

My fingers worked with nimble speed,
Each stitch a sign of love.
As if a message came to me,
From somewhere up above.

Through many hours and days of work,
The pictures came to light.
The reason for my driven task,
Was finally in site.

I knew then in my heart of hearts,
That I had found a way.
To tell the spirits of the lost,
I remember well that day.

Each time I gaze upon the quilt,
And the faces lying there.
I know that I was meant to sew,
To make the world aware.

February 11, 2004

Faces of 9/11
By Billie M. Spaight
Richmond Hill, NY


Faces, forming a pattern
All linked forever by a cruel fate.
Once they lived and loved and worked
Unbeknownst to one another
Side-by-side.

Faces, never to be forgotten
Images sewn together from shattered lives
Taken by fanatics who cared not for their being.
Lovingly, their memories are restored
Into a twinkling star

Faces, imprinted on the cloth
Of our collective soul, now reunited.
May we wrap this blanket of the faces of 9/11
Carrying them with us forever, offering
comfort to their loved ones.

February 11, 2004

In Honor of Lois Jarivs,
The Quiltmaker
By Wes Allen
Keller, Texas
 
You touched my heart today
with your wonderful work of love.
No other Angel could take your place
in our Heavenly Home above.

The reason you made this quilt
is very obvious to me.
It places loving memories
where all the world can see.

But it was Jesus working through you
to accomplish such a task.
No one in this earthly kingdom
could have designed each little patch.

When you join all those heads together
in a great starburst of grace,
Each and every gazing witness
has their heart set in a blaze.

I may never get to meet you
while we walk the wounded Earth.
But you'll not escape my notice when
we're all joined in the big starburst.
 
February 12, 2004

Together
By Keri Ann Byrd Foster
Pocomoke City, Maryland

Gathered together within a star
The lives of many will live on
We prayed for their safe journey
And their happiness above
Though our hearts were broken
As they left our side
The days continue to pass
The years sliding by
But we shall always remember
The laughter and the smiles
We miss you our family
Friends and neighbors too
Love fills our hearts
As we remember you
 
March  11, 2004

An Explosion of Smiles
By James Beard
Follett, Texas

Quilted faces, smiles
Exploding!

Like aviation fuel in a tallest building
blowing it into ten million pieces

Yet
Cannot destroy the happy faces

April 12, 2004

Dear Lois
by Marla Goihl
Fort Atkinson, WI

I know the hands that made this treasure,
I know the heart that conceived the idea.
There is no greater way one could measure
The remembrance of that fateful day.

April 21, 2004

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