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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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In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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We rarely get a definitive look at just how complicated and sometimes dangerous their everyday lives were. In fact,
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It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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Country Measured Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Political Social Spiritual Unique
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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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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At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.
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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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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
Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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Bright Broken Heart Inside Moon Power Restore
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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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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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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Begin Complication Dubious Fated Generally Soul
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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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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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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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Joy Lovely Pain School Temple
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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Belonging Reality Serious Voice World Writer
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Terrorism, and political chaos that have characterized the beginning of the 21st Century.
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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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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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