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Close Calls
Close Calls Rafts in rough surging, thrashing The surest, trust that water Surrender, find the way to floating best we can This is the work Let’s see…
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Hand to Hand
Light to Light In this ramble called life filled with sorrows, trouble my far-flung friends cast poems, like lights from hand to hand It’s how we cope…
Jan 18
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Field of the Mind
Field of the Mind Thorns grow in the field of the mind; clear them and there's no finer place.
Jan 17
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Excavation
Excavation This that we speak of can never be found by seeking, yet only seekers find it. —Al Bastami, born 804 CE This phrase haunted, lived inside my…
Jan 16
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Sending Light
Sending Light My insides go chill care for a friend who is lit up from within Unusual name, tawny skin, a man who loves men I feel curled danger…
Jan 15
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Old Dog
Old Dog 2009 On the couch, she drops her head in my lap as she has done thousands of times wanting ear rub, soft murmurings, communion. She’s old now…
Jan 14
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The Shape of Things
The Shape of Things Winter reveals structure. —Madeleine L’Engle Stripped in autumn, willows’ arc the profile of their weeping Gravity at play X-rays…
Jan 13
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Rise Up
now
Jan 12
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Threadbare
Threadbare When I am threadbare, cloth worn to a sheen I draw on my lights You know who you are Most, on the planet a few without body, spirit-full…
Jan 11
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Keepsake
Keepsake I coveted it Like all the stars in the firmament, air bubbles in Mom’s lead-heavy paperweight Her everyday impatient cautions: Don’t drop it…
Jan 10
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Snowbird
The Ekphrastic Review's Challenge
Jan 9
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Feeling Its Way
Feeling Its Way That river of rain a year ago fifteen inches in three days Thrilled it ended fire season Unaware it would drown Meyer lemon, two Daphne…
Jan 8
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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