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
ABERJHANIThis is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
More Aberjhani Quotes
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Life’s beginnings, along with all the muted and explosive moments that surface between the two extremes.
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Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown.
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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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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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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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Groping their way through suffocating shadows of political turmoil, economic oppression, military mayhem, starvation, and disease.
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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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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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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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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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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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Even when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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And other facets of human existence. Looking in certain other corners of the same mirror, he or she may experience glimpses of a True Self sheltered deftly behind a mask of public proprieties.
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