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The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

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The act of writing itself is much like the construction of a mirror made of words.
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Act Construction Mirror Promise Reality Word Writing
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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Authentic Grace Healing Religious Spiritual Usurped
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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Century Eliminate Invest Petry Still Unlikely War Willing
Dare to love yourself as if you were a rainbow with gold at both ends.
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End Gold Love Rainbow Self Esteem Yourself
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty,
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Beauty Being Compose Creature Human Passion Poetic Self
History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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Beauty Dressed Glow Grief Love Strength
What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.
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Brain Day Dispute Heart Man Valentine
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
The uses to which it may be applied are limited only by an individual’s imagination.
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Apply Imagination Individual Limited Meditation
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
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
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
When reading about what may be described as the lesser celebrated heroic figures of the Harlem Renaissance,
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Celebrate Describe Figure Harlem Heroic Lessor Past Reading Renaissance Year
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
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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Motivational Moving Forward Nation Progress Step Taken
With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
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Dance First Mind Music New Ninth Resurrect Slow Soul

The thorn is a bridge spanning the muddy depths of agony and sorrow so that one may on the other side dance to the drums of the rose of joy.

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