When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
ABERJHANIUpon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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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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In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.
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A river is nearly the ultimate symbol for the very essence of change itself. It flows unceasingly from one point of being to another
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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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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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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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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Still 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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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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