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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Learning to Play at Eighty
Learning to Play at Eighty As a young child I drew, painted, modeled clay hunted for fossils, swung on vines— ran free in acres, woods Then bore a son…
May 24
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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My Go-To Lunch
May 23
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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This Small Mercy
a shadorma: 6 lines, syllable count 3,5,3,3,7,5
May 22
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Life Bites
Life Bites Decades of spiritual practice even-tempered, good-natured prone to smiling then cataract surgery on one eye Watch out life bites in…
May 21
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Wondering - a Cinquain
Cinquain form: A short, usually unrhymed poem consisting of twenty-two syllables distributed as 2, 4, 6, 8, 2, in five lines.
May 20
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Only Then
Received honorable mention in the 2021 Redwood Writers poetry contest, but never published here.
May 19
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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My Dream
My Dream Thirty-one years I yearned— For three hopeful ones, stuffed $20 bills in a knee sock hanging in my closet Finally, the call Thirteen wolfhound…
May 18
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Unbroken
Unbroken eleven years old Wandering arm, twisted spine and turned-in leg stumbling He falls, landing hard picks himself up one expects complaint None…
May 17
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Wind Song
an ekphrastic response
May 16
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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When You Feel Ready
In Ellen Rowland's class, it was suggested we start with the first line I used, and write this more like a prose poem than my more usual spare style…
May 15
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Reclaim
The nonet form has nine lines, and each line has a descending (or ascending) number of syllables from 9 to 1 or 1 to 9.
May 14
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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