While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
ABERJHANIThe 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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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope – that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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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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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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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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It appears to be more that of a warrior-philosopher who practices the art of political persuasion by authoring acclaimed books
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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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In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one’s being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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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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Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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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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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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