His [Ben Okri’s] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them:
ABERJHANIBeauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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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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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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I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.
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And the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.
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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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Hope drowned in shadows emerges fiercely splendid–– boldly angelic.
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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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Because of this mixture of traits, these twins called Genius and Madness often appear to be the same thing.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Un-winged and naked, sorrow surrenders its crown to a throne called grace.
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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.
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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations.
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This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.
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