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Feet sandaled with dreams tread paths of vision leading to wisdom’s sharp peaks.
That good gardener, who wept thorns plowing his fields - harvests grace with joy.
Death wins nothing here, gnawing wings that amputate–– then spread, lift up, fly.
The fate that condemns or saves one sooner or later often condemns or saves another.
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
The same hot lightning that burns your blood with passion–– cools your fears with peace.
If life is a birthday cake let my face be smeared with its icing of cognac and kindness.
With my ninth mind I resurrect my first and dance slow to the music of my soul made new.
Got just enough room to be a friend of yours. Oh I hope you got room to be a friend of mine.
This fire that we call Loving is too strong for human minds. But just right for human souls.
A man sitting monkey-like on the rooftop of his brain is due the applause such feats earn him.
What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
To create art with all the passion in one's soul is to live art with all the beauty in one's heart.
Searching for a mind long lost I found it shaping colors and history near the cliffs of your heart.
Then came the healing time, hearts started to shine, soul felt so fine, oh what a freeing time it was.
Beauty from another world gave birth to your voice-- sent to rescue scorned hearts from traumatized nights.
Poetry and art nourish the soul of the world with the flavor-filled substances of beauty, wisdom and truth.
Someone had to embrace positive beginnings before anyone could celebrate successful conclusions or continuations.
All the world loves a ghost. The evidence of that simple statement can be found by looking in nearly every direction.
A world without poetry and art would be too much like one without birds or flowers: bearable but a lot less enjoyable.
The literary artist lends verbal depth to the visual. The visual artist provides visible articulation for the literary.
This rose of pearl-coated infinity transforms the diseased slums of a broken heart into a palace made of psalms and gold.
By consciously meditating upon spiritual truths and cultivating personal integrity, one need never fear negative circumstances.
A bridge of silver wings stretches from the dead ashes of an unforgiving nightmare to the jeweled vision of a life started anew.
Oh what a wonderful soul so bright inside you. Got power to heal the sun’s broken heart, power to restore the moon’s vision too.
President Obama appears to me to have elevated and implemented the artist-activist concept to the role of empowered servant-leader.
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.
The ecstatic beauty and soulful grace of Rumi's poetry inspires human hearts to believe in possibilities beyond the predictably fatal.
When the will to learn from the ordinary is present, a seeker may indeed gain entrance into levels of awareness that are extraordinary.
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.
In a rich moonlit garden, flowers open beneath the eyes of entire nations terrified to acknowledge the simplicity of the beauty of peace.
Learning to cultivate an awareness of the known and unknown within one's being often leads to a healthier and more realistic sense of self.
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.
Literary genres and techniques tend to take form in one's mind somewhat the way computer templates provide form for different computer tasks.
This is what our love is––a sacred pattern of unbroken unity sewn flawlessly invisible inside all other images, thoughts, smells, and sounds.
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.
The study of history empowers nations and individuals with an ability to avoid errors of the past and lay foundations for victories in the future.
Rainbows introduce us to reflections of different beautiful possibilities so we never forget that pain and grief are not the final options in life.
I place my fingers upon these keys typing 2,000 dreams per minute and naked of spirit dance forth my cosmic vortex upon this crucifix called language.
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.
Millions of tears have fallen for black sons, brothers, lovers, and friends whose assailants took or maimed their lives and then simply went on their way.
The reality of a serious writer is a reality of many voices, some of them belonging to the writer, some of them belonging to the world of readers at large.
Valentines Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
Valentine's Day itself, like most holidays in the modern era, has been heavily influenced by commercialism that focuses on the appeal of romantic fantasies.
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.
The passage of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 represented precisely such a hope - that America had learned from its past and acted to secure a better tomorrow.
Writing for me is a form of spiritual discipline and creative vision, a means of being in the world and giving one's love to it without compromise or dilution.
As history has demonstrated many times over, change may arrive slowly or quickly but it is the one constant, in one form or another, on which we can all count.
Time (again, Time) like the soul, wears many faces, many bodies and climates and attitudes. The past is one face, the present a second and the future yet another.