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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

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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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Age Brutal Humanity Political Unforgiving War
The singular historic moment millions now celebrate could have been tragically lost to guerrilla decontextualization.
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Celebrate Guerrilla Historic Million Moment Tragical
The more likely we are to continue to define history as one long inglorious record of man’s inhumanity to man.
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Continue History Inglorious Likely Long Man Record
Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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Almost Christmas Killed Music World
They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Excercise Live Reality Strength Sufficient
Whereas the insufficiency of a love neither sustained nor supreme cannot be ignored, the same should not be taken as cause to avoid one’s total spiritual contractual engagement to this world.
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Cannot Ignore Insufficiency Love Neigher Spiritual Supreme Sustained Taken
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed ‘mental disorder’ have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals.
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Careful Disorder Fashion Ignorance Knowledge Mental Revealed Studies Time
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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Ashes Bridge Dead New Year Silver Stretch Unforgiving Wing
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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Diamond Edge Howl Madness Pearls
What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Struggle
Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.
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Allow Heroically Live Meaningful Rise Triumphant
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Art Looking Mirror Poet See Sing
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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Compassion Exceptional Producing relief
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
When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Construction Context Election Participate Politic Voting
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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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Faith Inspirational Reconstructed Soul Spiritual Transform
The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Best Creative Horror Humanity Recorded Victory
I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Heaven Humming Mouth Reborn Third Time
Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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Brother Human Rights Man Sister
Happy World Poetry Day: ‘The American identity has never been a singular one and the voices of poets invariably sing, in addition to their own, the voices of those around them.
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American Day Happy Identity Man Poet Singular Voice World
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind
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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Art Century Eliminate Hope Petry Unlikely War
There is in Albert Camus’ literary craftsmanship a seductive intelligence that could almost make a reader dismiss his philosophical intentions if he had not insisted on making them so clear.
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Intention Philosophical Seductive
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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Citizen Country Dream King Martin Luther King Military Plea Searing Soul
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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Attraction Classic Emotional Heightened Individual Love Romantic
Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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Genius Madness Mixture Trait Twin

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