Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
ABERJHANIThe political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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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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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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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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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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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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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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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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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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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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