With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
ABERJHANIWith my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
ABERJHANIThe 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.
ABERJHANIYou are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
ABERJHANISearching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
ABERJHANIThe word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
ABERJHANIWith 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.
ABERJHANIVarieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
ABERJHANIClassic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
ABERJHANIBetween men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
ABERJHANIThis fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
ABERJHANIThe books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings
ABERJHANIIf 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?
ABERJHANIThe best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
ABERJHANIKnow yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
ABERJHANIStill willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
ABERJHANIOverall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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