How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
ABERJHANIComplications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
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Emancipation Proclamation represents both phenomenal political symbolism and a victory of faith in democracy that should not be lost on any American.
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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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Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.
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Within the universe of the extraordinary, those qualities we designate to human concepts of gender are often shared, exchanged, or even completely obliterated.
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Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
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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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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was a manifestation of hope that humanity might one day get out of its own way by finding the courage to realize that love and nonviolence
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Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream was not indicators of weakness but gifts of significant strength.
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Your pain is a school unto itself–– and your joy a lovely temple.
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Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.
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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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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives.
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War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.
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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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I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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They speak across different dividing lines such as those of haves and have-nots, youth and maturity, black and white, national and global, and the past and the present.
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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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