Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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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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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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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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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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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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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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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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