What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
ABERJHANISeptember 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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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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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.
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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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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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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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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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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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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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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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