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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

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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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American Day Happy Identity Man Poet Singular Voice World
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
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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Angel Gardener Perseverance Plowing Strength Thron Wept
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
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Ashes Bridge Dead New Year Silver Stretch Unforgiving Wing
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
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
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Applause Brain Earn Feat Man Monkey Rooftop Sitting
Like a Passover Poet gliding from house to house and from trembling soul to trembling soul the wind scribbled sonnets of first time love and weeping haikus of last hours on earth.
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Gliding House Passover Poet Trembling Wind
In ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.
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Emotion Idea Ignorance Image Knowledge Smell Sound
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
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
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
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin
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Cissy Cousin Dionne Warwick Diva Gospel Houston Legendary Mother Pop Queen Singing
As painful as life can be at times for people all over the world there is some component of existence, or nonexistence perhaps,
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Component Existence Life Pain People Time World
And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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Age Brutal Humanity Unforgiving War
Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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Blood Continue Flesh Law Man Men Place Technicalities Value
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
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Art Nourish Poetry Soul Substance Truth Wisdom

Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.

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