Christmas When Music Almost Killed the World
ABERJHANIYou were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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When the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness
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On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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Movies can provide tear-inducing or comically-entertaining representations of love, but many agree that its deeper conflicting complexities often seem unfathomable.
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President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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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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And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others.
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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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Erotic love, traditionally, has been described as shared sexual attraction.
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The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities,
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Classic romantic love is an emotional attraction between two individuals in which they may share a heightened awareness of mutual adoration.
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Love as a concrete foundation for an authentically functional civilization requires the around-the-clock labors of forgiveness. Without it, Love fails
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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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We are living in an era in which billions of people are grappling to promote communication, tolerance, and understanding over the more destructive forces of war
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
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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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Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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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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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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She [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.
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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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First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.
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