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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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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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Burns Cool Face Fear Lighting Passion Peace
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
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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Absurdity Campus Meaningful Self Speculated Theory Way
As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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Component Existence Life Pain People Time World
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Dancing Halos Metaphor Sacred Tempo Vortex
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
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
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Charity Hand Love Million Plenty Starved
Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Conscious Elevated Peace Political State Volunteer
She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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Depth Endowing Gift Inherited Lyric Skillful Whitney Houston
And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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Act Construction Existence Facet Human Mirror Promise Word
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.
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Dream Hate Heart Hope Rebuild Resumed
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Distorting Early Historic Invested Mandelas Moment Nature Opponent Resource True
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Applause Brain Earn Feat Man Monkey Rooftop Sitting
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
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Broken Healing Muddy Sparkle Wing
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Broken Coated Diseased Heart Peart Rose
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
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
It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
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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Achieve Being Equanimity Hard Human Justice
The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Celebrate Guerrilla Historic Million Moment Tragical
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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exchange Grace Healing Inspirational Murder Nation Nature Religious
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
Dare to love yourself
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Dare Love You Self Esteem Yourself

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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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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