Archive - Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

The Rush 1953 Trailing behind my big brother, his boasting friends into the dark wood the edge of a deep ravine oaks sporting thick grape vines…

6 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine

Drop into the well sink down through velvet quiet Not a water well no need to breathe— you have found the bottomless rift transporting you toward the…

Mar 3 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Devolution Fewer songbirds wild turkeys and deer All species in decline humans, too although numbers are rising As our buildings grow taller —half mile…

Mar 2 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Heartrending Today, my dog withstood an onslaught heedless herding pup no manners at all but my girl, the elder at three, forbearing youthful…

Mar 2 • Amrita Skye Blaine

How we alter the world

How we alter the world News brings pictures we can’t unsee a small brown-skinned boy, lop-eared blue-bunny cap his downturned mouth Everywhere strung…

Mar 1 • Amrita Skye Blaine

February 2026

Dichotomy What’s saving me right now —Julie Barton Cloudplay.

Feb 28 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Blindside eleven years old 8 AM, the smarting Mom, French-braiding my hair eyes watering from the pain, each time, I complained. She dragged me to her…

Feb 27 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Leave some time aside

Leave some time aside for doing what looks like nothing. As my eleven-year-old eyes rested on maple trees far side of the hockey field outside the…

Feb 26 • Amrita Skye Blaine

What We Carry Strength is built on suffering you cannot see. —Les Bernstein Every one of us has anguished and withstood.

Feb 25 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Toward Peace Peace is not something to be found outside; it must be cultivated from within.

Feb 24 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Gingersnaps 1953 The dough must chill before it can be rolled, a wearisome wait for a child paid off with a cookie-cutter galaxy of stars, crescents…

Feb 23 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Remembrance Stone

Remembrance Stone 1978 The stone is heavy, pitted So many secrets weighted you, your drinking most loaded Although your heart failed massive and sudden…

Feb 22 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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