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During Hard Times
poetic form: ovillejo (https://www.writersdigest.com/write-better-poetry/ovillejo-poetic-form)
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Look
Look We’re all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.
May 2
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Peace Prayer
Peace Prayer after Kevin Hart O come, this peace like a sun-bathing anole, heat-drowsed on the stony way because of relentless betrayal or come as a…
May 1
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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April 2026
Calligram - CASE STUDY
A Calligram is a poem shaped like its content.
Apr 30
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Catch and...
Catch and… Her long, curious nose pointing at the floor my sighthound Reading her I peer, too A delicate gecko aware of the looming goes still With a…
Apr 29
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Hay(na)ku
a poetic form created in 2003 by Eileen R. Tabios
Apr 28
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Trash Bandit
Ellen Rowland's prompt was to use as many words from the 4-4-2026 NYT Connections puzzle as possible. Out of 16 words, I used 12.
Apr 27
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Not This Time
An ekphrastic poem based onAkira Kusaka's painting "Angling the Night"
Apr 26
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Frog Singing at the Pink Moon
(a cento composed of lines from Mary Oliver)
Apr 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Just Before Green
The poems for the next thirty days are written from prompts from Ellen Rowland's class. You can find her on Substack.
Apr 24
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Caravan of Poets
Caravan of Poets When I rise in the dark rubbing my eyes, trundle to my computer slip on my heated vest I sense you, too awake in night’s deep, settling…
Apr 23
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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"How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell" —Ram Dass
How to Keep Your Heart Open in Hell —Ram Dass cluster bombs lobbed— democracy fractured 85 degrees, Sonoma County in March weeks, no rain obvious, this…
Apr 22
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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