Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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Drugs Be Back
Drugs Be Back The nature of humans! Feel better, overdo. Ten flights of stairs House models We’ll stay right where we are Bird feeders bring orioles…
21 hrs ago • Amrita Skye Blaine
Drugs Be Gone/Drugs Be Back
Drugs Be Gone Clear, wide open able to be present needing yearning hungering and finally, here I am lucid transparent awake ( next day) Drugs Be Back…
Aug 16 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Close to the Bone
first posted 5.5.2022
Aug 15 • Amrita Skye Blaine
My dog-eared heart
Dear honored readers: here are poems (most freshly edited) that I posted on Wordpress before moving to Substack year and a half ago, and early after I…
Aug 14 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Falling Asleep
Poetic form: gogyoshi. Lyrica, a nerve medication, my dose upped much higher.
Aug 13 • Amrita Skye Blaine
taking pain medication exactly as prescribed
repeated drawing, sorry.
Aug 12 • Amrita Skye Blaine
the over-eighty rat race
This poem is a new form to me, a Gogyoshi. It is a modern Japanese form, with a title and exactly five free-verse lines. No rhyme schemes, line-length…
Aug 11 • Amrita Skye Blaine
knowing other poets
knowing other poets like sighthounds are to other dogs— wholly different, aware, intuitive so poets are to other people noticing detail hearts more…
Aug 10 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Dog in a Cone
Dog in a Cone Leggy, her long, lean body, patrician nose, knowing dark eyes that anchor into mine When, for her well-being we slip on the cone affix it…
Aug 9 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Paradox
Paradox We’re made local for a time, each of us a point on this sphere of billions and growing No number’s large enough to count all manifest things a…
Aug 8 • Amrita Skye Blaine
What Cannot Be Shared
What Cannot Be Shared We draw lines on a map call this side ours the other side yours taken so seriously a silly business land belongs to land We…
Aug 7 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Feverish
Feverish Sick, home in bed had a feverish dream— Our teacher assigned daydreaming our most important task She said not knowing is fine, not to feel bad…
Aug 6 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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