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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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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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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Struggle
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Amazingly Armor Beneath Bone Color Mind Skin
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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Beautiful Clinton D Empowering Love Major Powell Shine
Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Angel Blossomed Hope Humanity Joy Love
With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Closer Empowering Healing Sense Something
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Disease Earthquake Peace Sky Smoldering War
The whole purpose of the construction of The Bridge of Silver Wings was to provide a path leading to The River of Winged Dreams, or to serve as a resting place until the river’s deeper and truer nature revealed itself.
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Bridge Construction Dream Leading Path Purpose Silver Wing
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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Cliff Color Heart Long Searching Shaping
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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Calligraphy Eye Ignorance Painted Star Terror
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Ambulate Death Fly Gnawing Lift Spread Wing Winning
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
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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Bodies Broken Carry Dream Giving Up Man Mind Remembrance Survivor Weight
Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Accommodate Ending Musical Occupy Pathway
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Joy Lovely Pain School Temple
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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Angel Cool Country Eagle Sitizenm Weeping Wing
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Condemned Heal Heaven Hell

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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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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