Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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Koan
revision of old poem
8 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine
Sound
Sound In the quiet, owl calls—carving a hollow in silence I listen for their echo
Oct 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Teaching a generative workshop this Thursday
ZenJen is hosting
Oct 25 • Amrita Skye Blaine
nowhere now here
old poem, revised
Oct 25 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Consent to Silence
Consent to Silence from Father Thomas Keating’s work with the Centering Prayer Two instructions: prior to sitting —give an internal bow —consent to…
Oct 24 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Due at the Bank
older poem from “strange grace,” revised
Oct 23 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Helm
older poem, revised
Oct 22 • Amrita Skye Blaine
The foundress
The foundress begins builds a stalk, attaches a few cells first laying daughter eggs, future workers to grow the paper-wasp nest Pulp chewed with saliva…
Oct 21 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Everything
old poem revised
Oct 20 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Dusk
Dusk And the miracles say, We were here the whole time.
Oct 19 • Amrita Skye Blaine
If only
photo by Les BernsteinIf Only The way the flap of a wing knows the entire sky —attributed to Mark Nepo Wing was made for sky undivided fish, water soil…
Oct 18 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Overboard
Revision of old poem, a spring poem, but oh heck, I need a little spring right now.
Oct 17 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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