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Pt. 1 People wear masks To hide or to accentuate Their true identity. It’s all Greek drama - A sad mask projects a frown, A happy mask smiles. That’s a…
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Give me your address. I want to send you a book of Haiku you'll love. Don't be a dummy. Things happen for a reason - you'll figure it out. Through twee…
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I noticed - when I read - the time seems not enough. But when just listening - the last half hour seems to last forever. I'd like to see my own self re…
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Happy 13th birthday, Jahari!
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Airport - Lisbon A thousand thoughts flood my thinking space. The physical diversity of people flying to the same country, the events that caused their…
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Poem from my morning walkListen now (1 min) |
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Garden video shots A garden shot.My place of mediation and communion with Mother Earth.There is no racial profiling in the garden,no victim hood and no…
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Reimagining James Weldon Johnson's "God's Trombones" with images by Aaron Douglas that accompany the original Johnson sermons
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On viewing a painting November 6, 2020 The painting included a nude subject, a woman of immense beauty, seated at a table having coffee. The steam slow…
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A disjointed space poem This might sound disjointed -I'm writing it while riding on theOrange Line from Capital Southto Foggy Bottom - you've heard it …
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Introduction. These poems were all written 1989 to 1991 while I was assigned to the USS Luce, guided missile destroyer that was homeported in Mayport, …
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