Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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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…
2 hrs ago • 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
Octogenarian
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
our dilemma
(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...
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
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
The Sum In three words I can sum up everything I’ve learned about life: it goes on.
Feb 14 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Lean In
Lean In Broadcast coherence.
Feb 13 • Amrita Skye Blaine
good friends
a Shadorma: 3/5/3/3/7/5 good friends Not seen in ten years their visit the blessing Sweet weaving, knitting back together what was let go, still missed
Feb 12 • Amrita Skye Blaine
If Only
If Only If only I could sleep with half a brain like dolphins do the other half composing, sorting words for grain, weave, and sheen—time reclaimed If…
Feb 11 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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