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Ars Pictoria
Ars Pictoria Look away again Note what I didn’t see, shapes and values, highlights negative space What blend makes up that warm espresso? Relax my eyes…
6 hrs ago
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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How the day turned on a refrigerator
How the day turned on a refrigerator Email, four poems accepted My elephant painting looks like a pachyderm— the day turns sunny even though its raining…
Apr 5
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the slog of living
the slog of living How to be alive?
Apr 4
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Doubt
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…
Apr 3
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Misstep
(image drawn with Blackwing pencil with added watercolor shadows)Misstep There is overgiving and under-accepting each a misstep learning to receive…
Apr 2
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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April First
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
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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March 2026
Pushing Through
Pushing Through Sun-hungry, air-starved two dicotyledon leaves bursting from seed or the baby chick yoke and albumen gone confined by shell become cell…
Mar 31
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Turning
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
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Sprawled
(three weeks ago)
Mar 29
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Takeover
Takeover A horde of cockroaches scurry through the kitchen their shiny rufous selves unstoppable We recoil but how do we block them? We march No Kings…
Mar 28
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The Sheep
ekphrastic poem responding to "The Wave" by Camille Claudel
Mar 27
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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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
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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