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.
ABERJHANIAt its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Upon 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.
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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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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Friendship fails, Intelligence fails, Humanity: fails.
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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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The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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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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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
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A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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