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,
ABERJHANIAlthough himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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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 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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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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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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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Unless you are here: this garden refuses to exist. Pink dragonflies fall from the air and become scorpions scratching blood out of rocks.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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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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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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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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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Made applicable to the present, and where visions shape the present into extraordinary possibilities for the future.
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