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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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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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Beneath Entire Eye Flower Garden Knowledge Moonlit Rich Terrified
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Angel Cool Country Eagle Sitizenm Weeping Wing
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Book Communion Fellow Human Being Meditation Prayer Represent Shared Spiritual
Creative visualization may be described as an extended meditation session that reaches beyond passive contemplation and achieves transformative action.
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Creative Visualization Imagination Meditation
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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Accommodate Ending Musical Occupy Pathway
In honor of Oprah Winfrey: Even greater than the ability to inspire others with hope is the power to motivate them to give as much to the lives of others as they would give to their own
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Giving Gratitude Hope Oprah Order Power Winfrey
Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Groping Military Oppression Political Suffocating Through
Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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Denominator Empowering Ignore Love Man Spiritual
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
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Construction Context Election Participate Politic Voting
Mixtape’ is a very appropriate word to include in the title of Goran Hugo Olsson’s film because it includes a rich mixture of cultural voices.
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Appropriate Black Goran Hugo Maturity Mixtape Olsson.Film Past Rich White
Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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Black Brown Buddhist Christian Jew Man Muslim Red White Women
When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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Authentic Grace Healing Religious Spiritual Usurped
Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Building Established History Humanity Justice Nation Patriotic
Often because the attempt to practice it is misunderstood, discouraged, brought under attack, or made a target of willful abuse.
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Accustomed Attempt Misunderstood News Often Practise
To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called “destiny” to maintain grief and horror in the world?
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Allow Destiny Dynamic Extent Indefinable Maintain
And make no mistake about it: love does take over and transform the schemes and operations of our egos in a very mighty way.
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Ego Mistake Operation Scheme Transform
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Blood Day Gushing Night Pain Pam
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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Comically Complexity Deeper Deepest Entertaining Inducing Movie Tear
The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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Birth Delivery Gestation Insignificant Light Period Poet Prayer True
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Act Construction Mirror Promise Reality Word Writing
They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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Across Black Line Maturity Speak Those White
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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Evidence Found Ghost Looking Love Simple Simply Statement World
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
Passion presented with a greater challenge achieves a greater goal.
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Achieve Challenge Determination Discipline Passion Presented
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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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing

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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