Artist – Bahai – Page 5 – June Paisa Perkins

For Tahirih

“And the skies that breathe navy blue”

In Faith

Be a hollow reed
Waiting for melodies
And the notes that breathe skies
And the skies that breathe navy blue
And the navy blue that breathes sea
And the sea the breathes woman
And the woman that breathes of your unveiling and peeling away
That skin of your ego loosening and falling
The cocoon the morn
In Badasht last century
The morn.

By June Perkins

Recently I have been enjoying discussions with Baha’i writers and artists online.
I asked an abstract specialist Meg Sloss how she would illustrate this poem and she sent me the above image.
Thanks Meg. You can find more of Meg’s abstracts on at this link MEG’S ABSTRACTS

Another friend in that same group as suggested making the above poem into a dance, which really has me thinking. I’d love to have a dancer interpret this and then film it. So many creative ideas, hoping I will get around to doing them all.

You can find out more about Tahirih here.

Tahirih’s Story

In Faith

Wrote this poem for Tahirih, one of the letters of the living, many years ago

World Citizen Dreaming

For Tahirih the poetess

In Faith
Be a hollow reed
Waiting for melodies
And the notes that breathe skies
And the skies that breathe navy blue
And the navy blue that breathes sea
And the sea the breathes woman
And the woman that breathes of your unveiling and peeling away
That skin of your ego loosening and falling
The cocoon the morn
In Badasht last century
The morn.

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First Light

A blessed Declaration of the Bab, Holy day. A poem written a while ago in honour of the day.

World Citizen Dreaming

First light
soft peach spreading over earth’s
Green skin.

Glimmerings of light
promise warmth to bathe in.

Monochromes of green
wash away the peach light spilling
everywhere

New ways spreading in seeds
planted soul by Soul.

Soul catching light
drinking it in
breathing it out.

Mulla Husayn has woken
to taste the first light.

By June Perkins
– From a collection in progress – Virtues Hands

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Ye are the Leaves

Little Things . . .

May you have a happy 2013, and set some awesome goals and fulfil them. One of my goals for this year is to make poetry posters like the above, and others are to produce inspiring short films, publish at least one book and finish some promised print on demand books, as well as earn a living that will help my family.

Wishing you all the best for 2013! Keep dreaming and always remember to value the little things in life. Lots of little things add up to something significant.