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to navigate away from hateful rhetoric that weighs you down
the poem creates a passion of meaning to carry out its implications
very few of us feel so freely as Billy Holiday
have not begun to scratch the surface
poets have been given birth to a daughter
every other aspect of the journey we all share
Langston Hughes & Robert Frost captures to spirit of liberation
a song like "Body & Soul" by Billy Holiday speaks volumes to me
poetry can free us to worlds unknown to see the horizon
this morning I rub my hands back and forth
see joggers in the street
remind me of the crazed liaisons
an evening dinner of lightning & clouds
all at ones they voice the echo of their past
