As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
ABERJHANIIf I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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