in communities we sing

in communities we sing

  • about kasperi + about the blog

    My name is Kasperi. I am a (former?) librarian, a youth worker, community-builder, part-time poet. I live in Philadelphia and was born & raised in California. I am a cradle United Methodist raised in an interfaith household of a Buddhist and Catholic. Someone once said I have a “very interesting interpretation of scripture.” My prayers tend to reflect that upbringing; my life tends to live that truth.

    I wrote many of these prayers for Young Prophet Collective, a handful for my churches, and a few for my family & friends. I wrote these poems for classes, for my friends, and anons on Tumblr. At the end of it all, thought, I write everything for myself.

    Everything on this site is licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial. This means you are welcome to use, re-use, remix, adapt and build upon the material in any medium or format FOR NONCOMMERCIAL PURPOSES ONLY. If you modify or adapt these materials, you must license the modified material under identical terms.

    tl;dr don’t make money off my shit and tell me if you remix my work! I would love to see what we created together.

  • Pentecost prayer

    This prayer was written for Pentecost in May 2024 for Church of the Young Prophets, though I have edited it quite a bit in June 2025. My prayers for YPC/Church of the Young Prophets often began with “God, Creator, Holy One” as part of the church’s push for gender-inclusive/gender-expansive language for God and as my own little project of creating rhythm and ceremony in our services as we grew from a small spiritual gathering on Zoom to a fully fledged church on the gather.town platform.

    God, Creator, Holy One,

    Join us today in this space as we come together from many places and in many tongues. As we reignite the fire we were born with, the fire you call us to live, to be, let us remember that you are the igniter. You are the spark. You are the heat that bursts our hearts open into holy flame.

    God, we move through and in worship with you, let us rejoice, let us praise, and let us come together to celebrate you. God be with your people, God be with me, and God be with our world as a holy light to guide us.

    In your many names we pray,

    Amen