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Birdsong
Birdsong Turning seventy, change— Bird looked at me differently and the contact began every few days my cell phone jingles Hi Mama, this is your love…
Jun 7
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Take Two
Take Two Hungry.
Jun 3
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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6
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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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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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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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One of the Newly-Old
My dear friend Rosemary, who turned 98 today!One of the Newly-Old Four friends well into their nineties chuckle when I call myself old You haven’t quite…
May 7
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The After
The After with thanks to Ellen Girardeau Kempler Of course there’s an after, cosmos still swirling and expanding in the wake of my body, gone—but I…
May 5
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Calligram - CASE STUDY
A Calligram is a poem shaped like its content.
Apr 30
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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untitled haiku
5-7-5
Apr 19
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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8
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Creaky
Creaky Waking up, a twinge of old age that ramshackle home loved and tended but wind-scoured beaten and wearing out still Writ this way the order of…
Apr 12
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Counterpoint
Counterpoint This body, this miracle will fail Destined to founder, designed to. The grievous irony— if we’re blessed, wisdom grows just then as the…
Mar 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Late Bloomer
Late Bloomer The expanse of one day zipping and somersaulting away Late blooming is hard when doors, locked long, fly open so close to the end
Mar 22
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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