Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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wonderment
wonderment From our birth to our death, the wonderment.
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the dancer
(an ekphrastic poem, written to the photo below)
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letting go
letting go mind can’t be stilled but seeing through its story world of she said, he did it can let go turns to the common everyday nectarines ripening…
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carapace
carapace seventy-five years painstaking work chipping heart shards first, delicate tappings release the tender inside one hard thwack and card house…
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notice
notice drop into neutral waters no need of spark or flame mind will still flare that’s what minds do like fireworks watched from far away
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here
here plane crash, new war, worsening misunderstanding— our world, askew yet in my small realm jasmine’s scent soothes dove cocks her head peers down at…
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pathless
pathless first a footpath, trod for decades a seeing fingersnap, change the way vanishes purpose flees leaving me unsettled without direction yet my…
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squirrel dangling on the feeder
squirrel dangling on the feeder an instant not separate or distinct rather the roiling, rollicking whole with perception placed on top attention…
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June 2025

late
late cave of night new cadence bimodal sleep moseyed to my reading chair allowing fingers to smooth, to choose they know my need for consolation, to…
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open
open the open palm of something true —Carrie Newcomer true ever open listening for the clearer way this, my work and path
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puzzled
painting by Rebecca Smith
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beyond understanding
beyond understanding labyrinthine to put into words what cannot be spoken pointing, yet off the mark no mark to point to let the scent of jasmine slow…
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