Archive - Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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

3 hrs ago • 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

Early Morning Surprise

(Rattle ekphrastic challenge--writing a poem in response to an image)

Feb 21 • Amrita Skye Blaine

He's got his eye on you

He's got his eye on you Capture the mockingbird's song, before it’s gone forever imprint it on your mind—his mimicry, bold survey of sounds like car…

Feb 20 • Amrita Skye Blaine

villanelle: a French form established in the sixteenth century that uses meter, rhyme, and a specific pattern of repeated lines.

Feb 19 • Amrita Skye Blaine

(My first ever attempt at a sonnet. This follows the Shakespearean form; the rhyme scheme is ABAB CDCD EFEF GG.)

Feb 18 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Four Lives to Go

(This happened a couple of months ago. Jazz is fine.)

Feb 17 • Amrita Skye Blaine

They say… …the seeds were sewn in the Reagan days where wealth breeds wealth the rest of us scrabbling to make the given work With wealth come power…

Feb 16 • Amrita Skye Blaine

Again Here the page, again And the hunger. What is that? Some days, restless with urge or drive other days, formidable horse and hurdle the rare day…

Feb 15 • Amrita Skye Blaine

The Sum In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.

Feb 14 • Amrita Skye Blaine

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