Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
ABERJHANIIn a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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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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What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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If 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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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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