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.
ABERJHANIThe birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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An author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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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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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Mainstream medias representation, or its guerrilla decontextualization, of black mens lives in particular can set the stage for erroneous assumptions capable of damaging an individual or a nation.
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Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Minister and writer Barbara Kaufmann has addressed the subject of guerrilla decontextualization on both the ‘Voices Compassionate Education’ website and on ‘Inner Michael’,
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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