Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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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…
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
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
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Octogenarian
villanelle: a French form established in the sixteenth century that uses meter, rhyme, and a specific pattern of repeated lines.
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Isolation
Isolation The Japanese Minister of Loneliness has moved all kindergartens to the ground floor of elderly assisted-living centers. —Sara Kay Autumn…
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for Rosemary
For Rosemary The open palm of something true —Carrie Newcomer Take my hand, we belong together me, old you, older almost a generation We come from…
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on turning eighty
on turning eighty I’m careening toward an unknown end dawn rolls into evening loops into daybreak again time is not fixed it stretches and shrinks…
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salt tastes just the same
salt tastes just the same hot day weeding the garden, sweat pouring or weeping, lifelong friend gone the cut deep— salt, the same immediate sharp clean
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
grief in old age
grief in old age a feathered thing beats its wings— I hear it fly in, come to rest sometimes it brings tears other times wistfulness or melancholy stays…
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slower wind
slower wind no rushing every task is that true? I give it longer walk, more care each moment attend to the heart dearly held so fleeting
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accommodation
accommodation old age at every turn let go then that trim the sails for slower wind
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
the dancer
(an ekphrastic poem, written to the photo below)
 • Amrita Skye Blaine
Mahashmashana, (महाश्मशान (Mahāśmaśāna)
sanskrit—the great cremation ground, Varanasi, India
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