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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.

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An 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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Accept Author Dance Idea Ignorance Invitation Language Moving Step
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
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
To heal the wounds of a nation as opposed to aggravate its injuries
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Aggravate Heal Injury Nation Opposed Wound
Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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Boldly Drowned Hope Rebirth Shadow Splendid
It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.
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Beautiful Courage Sincerity Spitfire Uncommon
The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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Cross Endure Heavier More Sincere Soul Strength
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
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Beneath Entire Eye Flower Garden Knowledge Moonlit Rich Terrified
Between men and women, between blacks and whites, northerners and southerners, haves and have-have-nots, self and self.
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Black Men Northern Not Self Southern White Women
Because Mr. Mandelas early opponents invested so many resources into distorting the true nature of his advocacy
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Distorting Early Historic Invested Mandelas Moment Nature Opponent Resource True
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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Angel Cool Country Eagle Sitizenm Weeping Wing
Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love’s liquid sigh.
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Angel Eager Extinguished Flame Kissing Liquid Love
The fact that an African American sits in the White House at the helm of government in the United States of America on this 150th anniversary of Abraham Lincoln’s
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Country Fact Government House State Symbolism White
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
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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Concept Dancing Designate Human Quality Reality
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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Evidence Found Ghost Looking Love Simple Simply Statement World
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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Dream Humanity King Manifestation Martin Luther King
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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Bright Broken Heart Inside Moon Power Restore
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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Assailant Black Brother Fallen Maimed Million Son Tear
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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Act Construction Existence Facet Human Mirror Promise Word
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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Computer Genre Intelligence Literary Mind Technique Template
The rainbows that dangle upon this mist: shatter. Like the smile of a child separated from his mother’s milk for the very first time.from poem Blood and Blossoms
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Blood Blossom Dangle Mist Mother Rainbow Shatter
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.
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Burn Death Everywhere Life Rebirth Shining
And to empower them to confront the worst in themselves in order to discover and claim the best in themselves.
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Confront Discover Empower Themselves Worst
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
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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Book Dream Enter Page Past Poetry Reader Transform World
What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.
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Careful Debilitation Disorder Mental Revealed Studies Suffered Time

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