What can bombs know of the illuminated fields so golden with heaven in your heart’s sacred lands?

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

Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.

First steps are always the hardest but until they are taken the notion of progress remains only a notion and not an achievement.

Michael Jackson National African American Art Examiner Series

Souls reconstructed with faith transform agony into peace.

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.