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
ABERJHANIEven when muddy your wings sparkle bright wonders that heal broken worlds.
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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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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder
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As life in general constituted much pain in the form of struggles against poverty, disease, ignorance, and emotional anguish,
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That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields – harvests grace with joy.
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In short, the power of a certain kind of dream is such that death need not indicate finality at all but rather signify a metaphysical and metaphorical leap forward.
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The definitive freedom-sustaining and life-enhancing principles of democracy in living action.
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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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The dancing vortex of a sacred metaphor clashes horns and halos to make wounded music set to the tempo of a new era in brilliant labor.
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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.
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In its essence, Martin Luther King Jr.’s ‘I Have a Dream’ speech is one citizen’s soul-searing plea with his countrymen––
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Trayvon Martin, at the most, seems only to have been guilty of being himself.
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As a poet and to accept the fact that life had never given me any choice in the matter. And then I had to discover exactly what that meant.
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Art gives its vision to beauty not always recognized. And it surrenders freely — whatever power it possesses to every sincere soul that seeks it. But above all else–it presents us with the gift of ourselves.
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That we all encounter during some unavoidable point of our existence into a sustainable life-affirming poetics of passionate creativity, empowered spiritual vision, and inspired commitment.
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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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