Archive - Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Doubt It’s doubt or concern that words will not come or, if they do, won’t find the knowing that sparked the start That feeling of heh not there, not…

6 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine

(image drawn with Blackwing pencil with added watercolor shadows)Misstep There is overgiving and under-accepting each a misstep learning to receive…

Apr 2 • Amrita Skye Blaine

April First and nothing about it is funny war in the Middle East, both insults and warheads hurled 170 innocent school girls murdered Likely our…

Apr 1 • Amrita Skye Blaine

March 2026

Pushing Through

Pushing Through Two dicotyledon leaves sun-hungry, air-starved or the baby chick yoke and albumen gone confined by shell become cell The scrabble to…

Mar 31 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Turning So busy, this mind a jumping spider freckling the world with starts and pauses until mind plunged into beauty stops its own turning joins yours

Mar 30 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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Mar 29 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Takeover Like a horde of cockroaches scurrying through the kitchen their shiny rufous selves unstoppable we recoil but how do we stop them? We march No…

Mar 28 • Amrita Skye Blaine

ekphrastic poem responding to "The Wave" by Camille Claudel

Mar 27 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Blackwing Pencils

Blackwing Pencils The ease of graphite on the paper, unlike any I’ve held before—buttery flow, begging me to draw Today, all the ways to suggest…

Mar 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Counterpoint This body, this miracle will fail Destined to founder, designed to. The grievous irony— if we’re blessed, wisdom grows just then as the…

Mar 25 • Amrita Skye Blaine

That, that is This is the first, wildest and wisest thing I know, that the soul exists, and that it is built entirely out of attentiveness. —Mary Oliver…

Mar 24 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Kaleidoscope Quarter-turn of the tube a jewel-bright image shatters no going back what we know is gone reality recomposed So life in every moment…

Mar 23 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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