A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
ABERJHANISeptember 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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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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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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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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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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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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Than they are to hearing anything about acts of love or grace.
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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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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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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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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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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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