Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
ABERJHANIWe are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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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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Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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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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And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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The music of revelation announces itself to the reader in somber brooding tones or in melodies light as air and one is invited to dance with the most captivating of partners: poetry.
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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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Shine your soul with the same egoless humility as the rainbow and no matter where you go in this world or the next, love will find you, attend you, and bless you.
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Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
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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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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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