Aberjhani

Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.

— Aberjhani

You are the hybrids of golden worlds and ages splendidly conceived.

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What a lover’s heart knows let no man’s brain dispute.

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The more sincere the soul, the heavier the cross endured.

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“Between death and hell a bridge shining silver wings offers his soul hope.”

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In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.

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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdoms sharp peaks.

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At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.

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The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them…

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“If it wasn’t for all those silver wings spread out to help you on your journey, you would’a been dead or someplace…

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Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's…

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A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started…

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A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.

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Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply…

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“It can be difficult to speak truth to power. Circumstances, however, have made doing so increasingly necessary.”

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“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly…

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“Democracy is not simply a license to indulge individual whims and proclivities. It is also holding oneself accountable to some reasonable degree…

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Humanity is not without answers or solutions regarding how to liberate itself from scenarios that invariably end with mass exterminations. Tools such…

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If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth…

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From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney…

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Most people are slow to champion love because they fear the transformation it brings into their lives. And make no mistake about…

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How many fears came between us? Earthquakes, diseases, wars where hell rained smoldering pus from skies made of winged death. Horror tore…

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The Emancipation Proclamation...can remind us in 2013 of all the mistakes we never want to commit again but it can also motivate…

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At some point, a flash of sustained clarity reveals the difference between what someone would have you believe is true, and what…

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“Often dismayed by but generally unflinching in the face of perpetual adversity, he [W.E.B. Du Bois] engaged the battle for equal human…

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In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by…

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Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for…

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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…

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“The rights and liberties represented by democracy, many agreed, were losing ground across the globe to restrictions imposed by authoritarian autocracy… It…

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Authentic inspiration endows individuals with mental or spiritual energy which they are then able to transform into positive action. It can make…

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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––Whites and Blacks––to…

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His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable…

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Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

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Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.

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Where humanity sowed faith, hope, and unity, joy’s garden blossomed.

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Stars wishing upon the potential of humans shine faithfully on.

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The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.

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True lovers earn their genius in schools of blood, prophecy and dust.

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

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“Each new year is another chance to get love right.”

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