When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
ABERJHANIWhereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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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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Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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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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Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela might be measured in part by the profound and unique gestures made by people in different countries to honor his life upon learning of his death.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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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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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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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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The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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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.
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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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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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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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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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As goes love so goes life.
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