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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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Peace is not so much a political mandate as it is a shared state of consciousness that remains elevated and intact only to the degree that those who value it volunteer their existence
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Conscious Elevated Peace Political State Volunteer
Poetry looking in the mirror sees art, and art looking in a mirror sings poetry.
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Art Looking Mirror Poet See Sing
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.
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Attitude Bodies Face Past Soul Time Wear
The Emancipation Proclamation…can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate us to fulfill to an ever greater degree
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Again Commit Emancipation Freedom Life Mistake Proclamation Remind
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
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Ambulate Death Fly Gnawing Lift Spread Wing Winning
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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Art Century Eliminate Hope Petry Unlikely War
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy
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Age Brutal Humanity Political Unforgiving War
The political, social, and spiritual impact of the life example set by Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela
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Country Measured Nelson Rolihlahla Mandela Political Social Spiritual Unique
Millions cheer the warriorspilling blood across the ringwhile the one who stands for peaceis ridiculed and shamed.
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Across Blood Cheer Heart Ignorance Million Ring Warriorspilling
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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Commercialism Day Era Holiday Influenced Modern Valentine
The best of humanity’s recorded history is a creative balance between horrors endured and victories achieved, and so it was during the Harlem Renaissance.
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Best Creative Horror Humanity Recorded Victory
Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action.
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Authentic Children Dream Inspiration Spiritual Transform
Nation-building is never a ‘done deal’ confined to history already established.
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Building Established History Humanity Justice Nation Patriotic
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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Country Democracy Faith Phenomenal Political Symbolism Victory
I called it a baptism in flaming ink that forced me to shed my shyness about recognizing myself
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed
As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Baptism Choices Flaming Forced Ink Poet Recognizing Shed

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