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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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And to secure for the next generation a legacy of choices based on informed awareness rather than one of reactions based on unknowing fear.
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Awareness Choice Generation Legacy Next Secure
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
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Bright Broken Heart Inside Moon Power Restore
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.
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Calligraphy Eye Ignorance Painted Star Terror
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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Intimacy Love Million Relationship Resurrect Second You
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
All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
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Evidence Found Ghost Looking Love Simple Simply Statement World
Tools such as compassion, trust, empathy, love, and ethical discernment are already in our possession. The next sensible step would be to use them.
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Compassion Empathy Ethical Love Possession Tool Trust
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Across Blood Cheer Heart Ignorance Million Ring Warriorspilling
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.
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Book Cloud Hand Page Pearl Snow Winter
Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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Beginning Explosive Extreme Life Moment Muted Surface
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one’s love to it without compromise or dilution.
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Creative Discipline Love Spiritual Vision Writing
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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American Day Happy Identity Man Poet Singular Voice World
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
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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Avoid Difficult Idea Man Profiling Racial Silence
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
September 11, 2001: Citizens of the U.S., besieged by terror’s sting, rose up, weeping glory, as if on eagles’ wings.–from the poem Angel of Remembrance: Candles for September 11, 2001
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Angel Cool Country Eagle Sitizenm Weeping Wing
You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.
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Age Conceived Golden Hybrid Self Esteem Splendidly World
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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Age Brutal Humanity Political Unforgiving War
War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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Bowl Disease Land Mind Poison Tear War
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
Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.
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Brother Human Rights Man Sister
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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Inspirational Mirror Reflecting Spiritual Star Truth
With something closer to love in its most empowering and healing sense.
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Closer Empowering Healing Sense Something
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Distorting Early Historic Invested Mandelas Moment Nature Opponent Resource True
Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.
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Faith Inspirational Reconstructed Soul Spiritual Transform
As living examples of the same. Peace ends with the unraveling of individual hope and the emergence of the will to worship violence as a healer of private and social disease.
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Emerge Example Individual Living Peace Unraveling

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