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A poet is a verb that blossoms light in gardens of dawn, or sometimes midnight.

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What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.

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When a reader enters the pages of a book of poetry, he or she enters a world where dreams transform the past into knowledge made applicable to the pre...more

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And now we step to the rhythm of miracles.--from The Light, That Never Dies

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Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mindmost of our colors are amazingly the same.

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The Universe said, ‘Let me show your soul something beautiful.

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Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new…

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How many fears came between us?Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hellrained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death.Horror tore this world asun...more

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Knowledge planted in truth grows in truth.Strength born of peace loses nothing to hate.

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The leaders and followers of the Harlem Renaissance were every bit as intent on using Black culture to help make the United States a more functional d...more

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Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.

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Just above our terror, the stars painted this storyin perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too oftenabused by ignorance, covered our eyes with m...more

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Many Americans first fell in love with the poetry of the thirteenth century teacher and spiritual leader Jelalludin Rumi during the early 1990s when t...more

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The job facing American voters… in the days and years to come is to determine which hearts, minds and souls command those qualities best suited to uni...more

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At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise...more