The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
ABERJHANIIn the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.
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Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
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An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
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They both have a tendency to blur the lines of what we call norms, or established reality.
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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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History dressed up in the glow of love’s kiss turned grief into beauty.
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The death of a dream can in fact serve as the vehicle that endows it with new form, with reinvigorated substance, a fresh flow of ideas, and splendidly revitalized color.
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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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The birth of a true poet is neither an insignificant event nor an easy delivery.
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We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.
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The more we ignore its potential to bring greater balance and deeper meaning to human existence
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The job facing American voter in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to unify a country rather than further divide it,
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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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Horror tore this world asunder. While inside the bleeding smoke and beyond the shredded weeping flesh we memorized tales of infinite good. -from The History Lesson
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Many may very well continue to ask why more value is placed on technicalities of a law than on a man’s flesh and blood life, especially when there is any amount of “doubt” at all regarding his guilt or innocence.
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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.
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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
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Before the thunderous clamor of political debate or war set loose in the world, love insisted on its promise for the possibility of human unity
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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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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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If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
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Complications generally begin long before the fated soul carries its dubious light into whatever womb has been kind enough to volunteer
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When we vote we participate in the construction of a context.
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Change is one of the scariest things in the world and yet it is also one of those variables of human existence that no one can avoid.
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