Aberjhani
Aberjhani
American-born author Aberjhani is an historian, columnist, novelist, poet, and editor. Although well known for his blog articles on literature and politics, he is perhaps best known as co-author of Encyclopedia of the Harlem Renaissance and author of The River of Winged Dreams. The encyclopedia won a Choice Academic Title Award in 2004...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionPoet
Date of Birth8 July 1957
CitySavannah, GA
CountryUnited States of America
Compassion crowns the soul with its truest victory.
Dreams dress us carefully in the colors of power and faith.
You were born a child of light’s wonderful secret— you return to the beauty you have always been.
Each star is a mirror reflecting the truth inside you.
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...
Love taught me to die with dignity that I might come forth anew in splendor. Born once of flesh, then again of fire, I was reborn a third time to the sound of my name humming haikus in heaven’s mouth.
At the edge of madness you howl diamonds and pearls.
Love, Mercy, and Grace, sisters all, attend your wounds of silence and hope.
Stars ink your fingers with a lexicon of flame blazing rare knowledge.
If I say your voice is an amber waterfall in which I yearn to burn each day, if you eat my mouth like a mystical rose with powers of healing and damnation, If I confess that your body is the only civilization I long to experience… would it mean that we are close to knowing something about love?
An outrageous instinct to love and be loved blinded your arms to lines of propriety––Women and Men, Christians and Jews, Muslims and Buddhists, white, black, red, brown. An outrageous instinct to love and be loved executed your brain every hour on the hour.
Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind most of our colors are amazingly the same.
The words ‘I Love You’ kill, and resurrect millions, in less than a second.
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.