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18 April 2020 | NPM Poetry Webslam

April 18, 2020 By Annis Cassells

La Vida Lenta

(The Slow Life)

by Rose Lester

Oh so swiftly flying by

            Winter, spring, summer, fall

The hours, days and minutes cry

            For time to answer freedom’s call.

I long for soulful emptiness

            And silence to abide;

A quiet heart that grace does bless

            And angels by my side.

Rose Lester is a Marriage and Family Therapist in private practice. As a true renaissance woman, she aspires to all things creative and is at home in a variety of creative mediums from song writing and singing, to playing her violin and guitar, to painting and sculpting, or writing poems about life and transformation. Her poems have been published in several anthologies and online websites. She volunteers for the Art for Healing program at Mercy Hospital and helps lead the Threshold Choir that sings at the bedside of those in need of comfort and peace.

Filed Under: Poetry Tagged With: National Poetry Month, Poetry, WOK National Poetry Month WebSlam, Writers of Kern

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  1. Sandy Sanford says

    April 19, 2020 at 6:07 pm

    Thanks Rose. Sounds like my life right now. Stillness and solitude serve me well. Gone from FOMO. Fear if Missing Out to JOMO. Joy of Missing Out.
    To quote you.. the freedom of soulful emptiness.

  2. Gloria Gorce says

    April 20, 2020 at 10:12 am

    I love to see others put into words, what I can or do not, what I feel. Thank you!

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