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The Martyrs of Shiraz
The promise of dawn arising, they tread their last steps to take their last breaths the cold dampness of the earth reminding them of...
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lperskie
- May 15
- 2 min
When the Meek Inherit the Earth
May the time come soon when the meek inherit the earth when a human’s inner worth is the gold currency of merit earned in immutable...
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lperskie
- Apr 5
- 1 min
Love Vine
She is volunteering at the senior center gift shop seated adrift walls hung with recycled attic clutter, where necklace mobiles dangle...
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lperskie
- Mar 25
- 1 min
Enable and Ennoble me
Dear God, please enable and ennoble me to see and know divine reality as the template of my life Its ocean my screen Its infinite...
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lperskie
- Mar 21
- 1 min
Leyla
Her eyes are elated moons peering through tassels of hair- a zephyr surrounds her creating a hum she is hypnotic in her confident freedom...
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lperskie
- Mar 21
- 1 min
Valle de Cauca
I land in the home of my heart In the valley of Cauca where mist meets mountain steamy heat spires up from mirrored grounds and the...
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lperskie
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Black Holes and the Future
Wonder itself has exploded in a noiseless big bang as we discover entire new galaxies and somehow it- slipped us that now we could see a...
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lperskie
- Dec 19, 2022
- 1 min
Stars and Magnitude
Stars and Magnitude Star so bright I wonder why we only follow the twinkling of the suns we can see so easily, with no inkling of the...
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lperskie
- Dec 16, 2022
- 1 min
Snow is Coming
Late fall peeling layers the last filaments of dead leaves floating down like embers from charcoal trees. Fall is falling revealing the...
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lperskie
- Dec 10, 2022
- 1 min
The Birds Don't Sing in the Rain
The birds don’t sing in the rain sadness weighs in puddles that distort light, I exhale the fog of inexplicable pain- the pitter patter...
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lperskie
- Dec 10, 2022
- 1 min
Nana and Gabe
Crooked in my arm I look over at your curly eyelashes and plump hand holding the book with me my youngest grandchild Making me...
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lperskie
- Dec 3, 2022
- 1 min
Where did the whales go?
Whales once abounded like fish close to the shore swimming trustingly into this cove where men swept them into nets, never sailing out to...
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lperskie
- Dec 3, 2022
- 1 min
Who guards the gate?
W Who guards the gate? at the threshold of your heart who do you summon? as day closes into thickest night wrapping the enemy on the...
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lperskie
- Dec 3, 2022
- 1 min
Silenced Stories
Silenced stories of abuse imprinted and crystalized into a unique pattern- a life script frozen in mind Truth covered in dark snow...
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lperskie
- Sep 16, 2022
- 1 min
How do you tend the garden of your heart?
Clear your heart from brambling fear and the hardness of unyielding thoughts opening the loamy terrain for tender shoots of hope that...
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lperskie
- Sep 14, 2022
- 1 min
Child Soldier
I am a child soldier conscripted, unarmed the proxy of the enemy in a war without end- my only retreat is within myself I cannot leave...
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lperskie
- Sep 2, 2022
- 1 min
Hope
Dear Emily, Thanks for defining the elusive beauty and enduring power of hope Life is more complicated now yet essence is a melody...
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lperskie
- Sep 1, 2022
- 1 min
Autumn Ball
I peer up through your skirts flaming, diaphanous each of you a cinderella in this autumn ball This is the season when you emerge from...
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