She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
ABERJHANIBefore 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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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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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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Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
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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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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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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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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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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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It becomes more and more difficult to avoid the idea of black men as subjects of not just racial profiling but of an insidious form of racial obliteration sanctioned by silence.
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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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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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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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