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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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The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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Country Day Determine Facing Freedom Job Mind Vote
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Condemned Heal Heaven Hell
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
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage
In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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Certain Death Indicate Kind Need Power
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
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
Whites and Blacks––to recognize that racial disparities fueled by unwarranted bigotry were crippling America’s ability to shine as a true beacon of democracy in a world filled with people
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Bigotry Black Disparities Fuel Recognize Unwarranted White
With its leaves so rich and heavy with elation and its crimson face made brighter with visions of divinity the shadow of a certain rose looks just like an angel eating light.
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Angel Elation Leave Light Rich Rose Vision
As sad as it may be to admit, in our modern world people are far more accustomed to hearing news of war, genocide, murder, disasters, famine, and disease
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Admit Hear Modern News Sad War
And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Confront Discover Empower Themselves Worst
Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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Fear Fearlessly Know Quietly Yourself
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various ‘individuals’, or groups of ‘individuals’
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Boil Country Difference Down Happiness Hope Impact Issue Perhaps Pursuit Represented
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
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Broken Coated Diseased Heart Peart Rose
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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Conscious Elevated Peace Political State Volunteer
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.
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Blood Day Gushing Night Pain Pam
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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Beauty Being Compose Creature Human Passion Poetic Self
Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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Champion Day Funny Mistake People Slow Valentine
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
Delivering well-crafted speeches, assembling unified coalitions, passing historic legislation, signing well-aimed executive orders, and cultivating a poised but accessible demeanor.
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Assembling Coalition Delivering History Legislation Passing Speechless
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
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Angel Gardener Perseverance Plowing Strength Thron Wept
The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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Dancing Halos Metaphor Sacred Tempo Vortex
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
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Bomb Heart Heaven Illuminated Land Sacred
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Ambulate Death Fly Gnawing Lift Spread Wing Winning
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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Cry Smile Sometime Tear Years
With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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Dance First Mind Music New Ninth Resurrect Slow Soul

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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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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