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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true,

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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
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
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
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Condemned Heal Heaven Hell
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings…
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Book Communion Fellow Human Being Meditation Prayer Represent Shared Spiritual
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
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Beneath Entire Eye Flower Garden Knowledge Moonlit Rich Terrified
Operating to implement a balance and give us an opportunity to turn the horrors we’ve forced upon each other into something more conducive to sustaining at least minimal degrees of sanity and love.
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Balance Force Horror Implement Operating Opportunity
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
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
Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.
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Angel Destiny Faithfully Human Shine Star
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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Art Bearable Bird Enjoyable Flower Poetry World
It also contains a humbling light of recognition that compels many to do whatever they can to help reinforce the efforts of those who might be ‘at risk’ of not just giving up on their dreams, but of giving up on their continued existence.
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Compel Existence Help Humbling Recognition Reinforce
That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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Compendium Condensed Encounter Journey Power Rainbow Represent Unavoidable
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
Still willing to invest in art and poetry’s own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.
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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,
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Act Certain Construction Illuminated Looking Mirror Promise Word
By striving so mightily to accomplish specific goals on behalf of one segment of humanity, she [Toni Morrison] went beyond them to create literary wonders capable of enriching the lives of not just her own people, but of all people.
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Accomplish Goal Humanity Mightily People Specific Striving Toni Morrison
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
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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Carefully Color Dream Dress Faith Power
And now we step to the rhythm of miracles. –from The Light, That Never Dies
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Die Light Miracle never Reflection Rhythm Step
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.
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Act Address Civil Foundation Right Voting
Although himself frequently a target of guerrilla decontextualization, a major part of the meaning of Michael Jackson’s life was to help balance the accumulation of horrors
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Decontextualization Guerrilla Healing Life Love Major Meaning Michael Jackson
When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge
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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
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Art Artist Culture Depth Lend Literary Verbal
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
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

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