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Creaky
Creaky Waking up, a twinge of old age that ramshackle home loved and tended but wind-scoured beaten and wearing out still Writ this way the order of…
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Becoming
Ekphrastic poem written to Akira Kusaka's painting, "Dawn Soup."
Apr 11
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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the clock
the clock These hands are churches that worship the world —Naomi Shihab Nye These hands that pat, knead stroke, clasp pen and brush want to praise they…
Apr 10
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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What now?
What now?
Apr 9
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Gravity
Gravity The gutter catches what falls rain, leaves, bird droppings, bugs Life, in a nutshell Falling the moment we’re born into the midwife’s hands As…
Apr 8
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Dusking
Dusking Sufis speak of the kamal point— neither inbreath nor outbreath the inner arrival of daybirth and nightfall, the inbetween outside of time an…
Apr 7
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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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…
Apr 6
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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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Amrita Skye Blaine
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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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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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