A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
ABERJHANIThe 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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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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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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With intent to neither idolize nor demonize the man [Barack Obama], it seems fair and evident enough to say that the current president of America is not a leader whose way is that of violent public outbursts.
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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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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It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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The 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
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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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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