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.
ABERJHANIAn author accepting language’s invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively–even if with much dread
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The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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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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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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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Love is our most unifying and empowering common spiritual denominator.
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Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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And what you know from the depths of your own heart to the peaks of your soul to be true. What happens after that is up to you.
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Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one’s mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
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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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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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The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi’s poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
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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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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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Know yourself fearlessly (even quietly) for all the things you are.
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