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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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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Heaven Humming Mouth Reborn Third Time
And a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.
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Being Compose Creature Human Poetic Self
Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Joy Lovely Pain School Temple
In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Beyond Children Hate Hyenas Mother Muddy Passive Sorrow
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Giving Gratitude Hope Oprah Order Power Winfrey
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
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Broken Healing Muddy Sparkle Wing
The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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Blood Blossom Dangle Mist Mother Rainbow Shatter
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
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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Age Conceived Golden Hybrid Self Esteem Splendidly World
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Country Fact Government House State Symbolism White
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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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
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 thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.
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Agony Bridge Dance Flower Sorrow Spanning Thron
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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Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded 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

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