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Looking at certain illuminated corners of or cracks within the mirror, the author can see fragments of an objective reality that comprise the physical universe, social communities, political dynamics,

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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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Agony Bridge Dance Flower Sorrow Spanning Thron
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice– sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
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Beauty Birth Heart Night Rescue Scormed Traumatize Voice
On faith’s battered back calm eyes etch prayers that cool a nation’s hot rage.
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Battered Calm Eye Faith Hot Nation Prayer Rage
Upon the lips of babes asleep I saw light embracing light and so allowed my syllables to rest there as a prayer they might sing in their dreams.
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Asleep Babe Dream Embracing Light Lips Prayer Saw Syllables
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
How hard are human beings willing to fight to achieve and sustain justice, equanimity, or joy? And should progress be called such when it devours what is best within the human spirit?
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Achieve Being Equanimity Hard Human Justice
I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
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Heaven Humming Mouth Reborn Third Time
They may have for their lives, or, exercising sufficient strength of will to make those dreams a reality.
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Dream Excercise Live Reality Strength Sufficient
A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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Dawn Garden Light Midnight Poet Sometime Verb
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
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
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
The word ‘survivor’ carries a weight of remembrance that has broken the minds and bodies of more than a few men and women.
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Bodies Broken Carry Dream Giving Up Man Mind Remembrance Survivor Weight
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.
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Condemned Heal Heaven Hell
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series
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Art Country Examiner Fame Michael Jackson National
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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Asunder History Horror Inside Lesson Shredded World

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