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.
ABERJHANIStill 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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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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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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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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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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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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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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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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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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Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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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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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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