Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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communion
communion my favorite time just before dusk angled, softer, light graces grazing tree trunks final warmth for bathing birds and my old bones sun drops…
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altars under the sky
altars under the sky acorn lodges in a snag roots into moisture, sprouts, rose petals let go, make a heart on the ground, sea-polished agate glows…
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charge
charge while I float on poems threats of war spread what is my charge, how to carry this fear? it cannot be right to attack unprovoked innocents will be…
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amaranthine
amaranthine I’m having an affair with the word amaranthine, sprinkled with a spark of magenta, the mystery, how a plant comes to mean everlasting…
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sun rising
sun rising and still a tyrant rules it used to be faraway places now here, my home even as songbirds serenade me awake I will not watch— instead I stand…
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noticing
noticing The cost of noticing is feeling it all.
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their open faces
their open faces Nobody can keep on being angry if she looks into the heart of a pansy for a little while.
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wonderment
wonderment From our birth to our death, the wonderment.
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the dancer
(an ekphrastic poem, written to the photo below)
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letting go
letting go mind can’t be stilled but seeing through its story world of she said, he did it can let go turns to the common everyday nectarines ripening…
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carapace
carapace seventy-five years painstaking work chipping heart shards first, delicate tappings release the tender inside one hard thwack and card house…
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notice
notice drop into neutral waters no need of spark or flame mind will still flare that’s what minds do like fireworks watched from far away
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