The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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 fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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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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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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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
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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,
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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Life possesses an amazing array of profoundly sad faces.
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
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That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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If 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?
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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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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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