Aberjhani
Ours is an age in which thousands are driven daily from their homelands by the unforgiving brutalities of war, terrorism, political oppression, starvation, disease, economic piracy, and the relentless suffocation of that singular breath which makes human beings individuals.Collection: War
Varieties of angels, like varieties of love, are many.Collection: Angel
Careful studies of cases dealing with supposed 'mental disorder' have at times revealed that many thought to be insane or warped in some fashion were actually simply highly sensitive individuals. What they suffered from was not mental debilitation, but personal and communal ignorance of psychic reality.Collection: Fashion
Poetry, like jazz, is one of those dazzling diamonds of creative industry that help human beings make sense out of the comedies and tragedies that contextualize our lives.Collection: Creative
As goes love so goes life.Collection: Love
Many people can rightfully claim, as much as anyone can rightfully claim anything, that much of their lives have been spent stumbling through a cloud of cluelessness.Collection: Clouds
Quote words that affirm all men and women are your brothers and sisters.Collection: Brother
We can cry for years but sometimes gotta smile too.Collection: Years
In a world gushing blood day and night, you never stop mopping up pain.Collection: Pain
Hearts rebuilt from hope resurrect dreams killed by hate.Collection: Dream
What hell condemned, let heaven now heal.Collection: Heaven
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.Collection: Art
Some have speculated that the way [Albert] Camus died made his theories on absurdity a self-fulfilling prophecy. Others would say it was the triumphant meaningful way he lived that allowed him to rise heroically above absurdity.Collection: Meaningful
The Civil Rights Act of 1964 laid the foundation for the Voting Rights Act of 1965, but it also addressed nearly every other aspect of daily life in a would-be free democratic society.Collection: Rights
The issue, perhaps, boils down to one of how perceptions or misperceptions of racial difference impact various 'individuals', or groups of 'individuals', experience of freedom in America. Some would argue that it goes beyond hampering their "pursuit of happiness" to outright obliterating it.Collection: Pursuit Of Happiness
Human beings, in a sense, may be thought of as multidimensional creatures composed of such poetic considerations as the individual need for self-realization, subdued passions for overwhelming beauty, and a hunger for meaning beyond the flavors that enter and exit the physical body. A person might even be described as a self-contained multiverse.Collection: Beauty
Just above our terror, the stars painted this story in perfect silver calligraphy. And our souls, too often abused by ignorance, covered our eyes with mercy.Collection: Stars
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.Collection: Hope
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.Collection: Winning
Now come the whispers bearing bouquets of moonbeams and sunlight tremblings.Collection: Love
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.Collection: Beauty
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.Collection: Discipline
An author accepting language's invitation to dance steps onto the floor of his her sensibility-charged consciousness and begins to move instinctively--even if with much dread--in ways that synchronize images, ideas, emotions, sounds, smells, ignorance, and knowledge.Collection: Moving
This world’s anguish is no different from the love we insist on holding back.Collection: Different
A horn of plenty spills from your hands into the starved lives of millions.Collection: Love
At its most dynamic, faith evolves into powerful applicable knowledge.Collection: Powerful
In your hands winter is a book with cloud pages that snow pearls of love.Collection: Book
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.Collection: Fate
Overall, my books represent a kind of shared communion and meditation with my fellow human beings... The books are also a part of what I call the great continuum of spiritual literary dialogue that I feel has been in progress since human beings first gave in to the urge to pray to their sense of something greater than themselves and interpreted certain signs or events or silences as responses to those prayers.Collection: Spiritual
Such are these places where lovers of bliss behold the angel of peaceCollection: Peace
War poisons the land Like diseased minds downloaded/ into bowls of tears.Collection: War
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.Collection: Heart
Dare to love yourselfCollection: Self Esteem
Everywhere we shine death and life burn into something new.Collection: Life And Death
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.Collection: Men
From her gospel-singing mother Cissy Houston, her legendary pop-diva cousin Dionne Warwick, and her Queen of Soul godmother Aretha Franklin, she [Whitney Houston] inherited gifts for skillfully interpreting lyrics and endowing them with new depth and jeweled nuance.Collection: Mother
Christmas When Music Almost Killed the WorldCollection: Music
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.Collection: Heart
Nation-building is never a 'done deal' confined to history already established.Collection: Patriotic
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.Collection: Art
Here are lips of flame eager to be extinguished by love's liquid sigh.Collection: Love
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.Collection: Art
At one end of the continuum known as history are first-time events that have generated notable measures of public recognition due to either a positive or negative impact.Collection: Destiny
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.Collection: New Year
His [Ben Okri's] work poses very serious questions for the twenty-first century. Among them: To what extent will we allow the indefinable dynamics of something called "destiny" to maintain grief and horror in the world? 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?Collection: Grief
And therein shines one major definition of what it meant to be Clinton D. Powell: someone who looked for, trusted in, and helped empower (if you will) the best in others. It takes a lot of beautiful love, uncommon sincerity, and spitfire courage to do that.Collection: Love
In an age when nations and individuals routinely exchange murder for murder, when the healing grace of authentic spirituality is usurped by the divisive politics of religious organizations, and when broken hearts bleed pain in darkness without the relief of compassion, the voice of an exceptional poet producing exceptional work is not something the world can afford to dismiss.Collection: Inspirational
While it is unlikely that poetry or art shall eliminate the reality of war in the twenty-first century, it is thrilling to know there remain individuals, and even entire communities, still willing to invest in art and poetry's own uniquely explosive contributions to the great, and small, dramas of human history.Collection: Hope
Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner SeriesCollection: Art