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School Shooter
School Shooter ‘Shooting star’ You were born of the same stardust, the same love but you lost your soul on a quest You were the soft...
lperskie
Sep 9, 20241 min read
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Spring Rehearsal
Spring Rehearsal Birds chirping in rehearsal for spring Bravely sweet as winter thaws, and the grey film of unended winter still covers...
lperskie
Jun 9, 20241 min read
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Removing the Veil
Removing the Veil In honor of Tahirih - 'The Pure One' For centuries, ‘she’ lived in the shadows behind veils, behind walls, behind men...
lperskie
Jun 9, 20242 min read
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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...
lperskie
May 31, 20232 min read
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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...
lperskie
May 15, 20232 min read
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Love Vine
She is volunteering at the senior center gift shop seated adrift walls hung with recycled attic clutter, where necklace mobiles dangle...
lperskie
Apr 5, 20231 min read
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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...
lperskie
Mar 25, 20231 min read
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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...
lperskie
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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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...
lperskie
Mar 21, 20231 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 19, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 19, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 16, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 10, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 3, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Dec 3, 20221 min read
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Silenced Stories
Silenced stories of abuse imprinted and crystalized into a unique pattern- a life script frozen in mind Truth covered in dark snow...
lperskie
Dec 3, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Sep 16, 20221 min read
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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...
lperskie
Sep 14, 20221 min read
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Hope
Dear Emily, Thanks for defining the elusive beauty and enduring power of hope Life is more complicated now yet essence is a melody...
lperskie
Sep 2, 20221 min read
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