‘That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.’
By Seamus Heaney

The Art and history of Poetry

We understand Poetry to be the art of conveying a thought, a memory or even a concept, through the medium of the written or spoken word, either in a free or structured style.
Poetry of course predates literacy, and was frequently used to record history, stories, cultures, and societal norms.
This style of poetry is particularly evident in music and song
A displayed in this piece of music and poetry-

An Irish Blessing Music by Arlene Faith

US President, Joe Biden quotes Irish Poetry Verbatim

 Yes, can you believe it?
US, Irish American President Joe Biden quotes poetry by Seamus Heaney and WB. Yates in his orations.
In his Democratic Nomination Acceptance Speech Joe Biden quotes Poet Heaney
‘’Our moment to make ‘hope and history rhyme’……”
In his acceptance President Biden again quotes Seamus Heaney-
‘History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave’…

Inspirational Poem of Hope by Seamus Heaney

The Cure of Troy
Human beings suffer
They torture one another,
They get hurt and get hard.
No poem or play or song
Can fully right a wrong
Inflicted and endured.
The innocent in gaols
Beat on their bars together.
A hunger-striker’s father
Stands in the graveyard dumb.
The police widow in veils
Faints at the funeral home.
History says, Don’t hope
On this side of the grave…
But then, once in a lifetime
The longed-for tidal wave
Of justice can rise up,
And hope and history rhyme.
So hope for a great sea-change
On the far side of revenge.
Believe that a further shore
Is reachable from here.
 Believe in miracles
And cures and healing wells.
Call miracle self-healing:
The utter, self-revealing
Double-take of feeling.
If there’s fire on the mountain
Or lightning and storm
 And a god speaks from the sky
That means someone is hearing
The outcry and the birth-cry
Of new life at its term.
It means once in a lifetime
That justice can rise up
And hope and history rhyme.
_{By Seamus Heaney}