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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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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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Christmas Felt Healing Heart Shine Started Time
Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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Groping Military Oppression Political Suffocating Through
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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Begin Complication Dubious Fated Generally Soul
Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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Broken Healing Muddy Sparkle Wing
The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Best Creative Horror Humanity Recorded Victory
The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Act Construction Mirror Promise Reality Word Writing
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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Awareness Discipline Entrance Indeed Level Ordinary Seeker Will
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire
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Born Dignity Fire Flesh Heaven Names Taught
It can make all the difference between a man, woman, or child allowing despair to permanently paralyze any dreams
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Despair Difference Man Paralyze Permanent Woman
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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Blood Continue Flesh Law Man Men Place Technicalities Value
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
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
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Belonging Reality Serious Voice World Writer
First gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.
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Almost Dismiss Greater Pray Sense Themselves
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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Attraction Classic Emotional Heightened Individual Love Romantic
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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Authentic Grace Healing Religious Spiritual Usurped
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
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Conclusion Embrace Hope Humanity Post Successful
She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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Depth Endowing Gift Inherited Lyric Skillful Whitney Houston
The intricate machinery of its blood and prayers and muscles for a gestation period much longer than nine months or even nine years.
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Blood Intricate Longer Machinery Period Prayer
In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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Citizen Country Dream King Martin Luther King Military Plea Searing Soul
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
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Compassion Crown Soul Trust Victory
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety
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Arm Buddhist Christian Instinct Love Man Outrageous Women
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Brain Day Dispute Heart Man Valentine
What more civilized way for people to alleviate the same than by giving themselves to one another as brothers and sisters in deed as well as in word?
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Brother Disease Emotional General Ignorance Struggle
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Angel Choice Many Varieties Variety
How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.
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Disease Earthquake Peace Sky Smoldering War
Yet continuously occupies the same bed or pathway, and accommodates life’s endings with the same musical grace with which it accommodates
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Accommodate Ending Musical Occupy Pathway

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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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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