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Seven poems for November
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Dear friends: we weren’t able to breakaway for the Sunday meeting – these fourteen lines will fill our seats, we hope, and share the space. Did y’all…
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A poet named Nikki Giovanni came to Greensboro back in the 70’s and read for a small group of students. Somehow or other I found myself in the mix. Can…
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I love November! I love November! It's not because of football. It's not because I came to my senses and switched to cross-country my sophomore year…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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Happy 13th birthday, Jahari!
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It was a double whammy. There is the old foreign service adage that one always remembers one's first overseas posting. But then there was the local…
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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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