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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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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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Activist Appear Art Concept Elevated Humanity Implementation Leader Obama President
Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Children Dragonflies Exist Fall Garden Mother Pink Refuse Scorpion Unless
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
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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Authentic Grace Healing Religious Spiritual Usurped
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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Art Book Brack Obama Demonize Enough Fair Idolize Intent Warrior
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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Awareness Healthier Known Learning Psychics Self
In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Emotion Idea Ignorance Image Knowledge Smell Sound
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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Beauty Child Children Inspirational Recovery Secret
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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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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Belonging Reality Serious Voice World Writer
As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Life Love Struggle
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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Awareness Choice Generation Legacy Next Secure
The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Celebrate Guerrilla Historic Million Moment Tragical
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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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence

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