Poetry is not a luxury. It is a vital necessity of our existence. It forms the quality of the light within which we predicate our hopes and dreams toward survival and change, first made into language, then into an idea, then into more tangible action. 
POEM
Often I Imagine the Earth
By Dan Gerber
We are all connected, we are all helping each "fly home."
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