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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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Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Building Established History Humanity Justice Nation Patriotic
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
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Amazingly Armor Beneath Bone Color Mind Skin
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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Cissy Cousin Dionne Warwick Diva Gospel Houston Legendary Mother Pop Queen Singing
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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Again Commit Emancipation Freedom Life Mistake Proclamation Remind
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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Balance Deeper Greater Ignore More Potential
The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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Color Death Dream Motivational Reinvigorated Serve Substance
While many people like the idea of exercising unconditional love, most eventually find it too draining and impossible to sustain,
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Draining Exceeding Exercise Idea Peeple Unconditional War
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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Ashes Bridge Dead New Year Silver Stretch Unforgiving Wing
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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Asleep Babe Dream Embracing Light Lips Prayer Saw Syllables
Without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.
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Compassion Exceptional Producing relief
To create art with all the passion in one’s soul is to live art with all the beauty in one’s heart.
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Art Beauty Create Herat Own Passion
At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,
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Believe Difference Flash Heart Reveal Sustained
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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Egoless Humility Rainbow Shine Shining World
With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Closer Empowering Healing Sense Something
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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Children Dragonflies Exist Fall Garden Mother Pink Refuse Scorpion Unless

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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