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05.3.10

Who Am I?

Who am I? I am… I am thirty years old. I am married to a beautiful woman whom sometimes I wonder if I truly deserve. I am a child of two parents who sacrificed much and worked hard to give me a future because they believed in me more than ...

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04.30.10

what is the measure of a man?

I'm sure that somewhere in the past I've posted this or linked to this video but I can't help it. I have never been moved by poetry more, I have never been forced into longer moments of reflection and found myself more comfortable in the silence that follows than ...

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04.13.09

the death of our passion; the death of idealism

When does it happen? When does the slow death of our childish idealism, of that passion we cling so tightly to, when does it fade into what we now possess--a mere glimmer of what it once was? Anis Mojgani has a poem that stirred these questions within me:I spent hours ...

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04.8.09

There is a War going on for your mind

Poetry is beginning to infuse our society once again with subversive themes and tones that rage against the machine we've become so accustomed to. This is one of those pieces that challenge us and call us to think for ourselves instead of swallowing whole what the massive media machine/industry ...

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04.3.09

Would the world be better off without religion?

I've long been a fan of the raw, authentic, transparent nature of slam poetry but no one has captured my attention more than Anis Mojgani. Recently Soul Pancake did an interview and included a couple of videos of him in action. I highly recommend checking them out and ...

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