awakening

sacred book Listen to this rain and tell me it's not prayer.

Apr 3 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

ground or sky will my feet find firm ground barefoot in the soil, somewhere to land? or will I sprout wings, flutter and train on the edge of the nest…

Apr 2 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

change thrust onto the continuum from zygote to adult irritant to pearl spring to winter squirming kit to fox cycles everywhere animals don’t resist

Mar 31 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

dead when I see something dead in the road, prayer falls from my lips if it’s small, squirrel or skunk, I bless hope it didn’t suffer and drive on by if…

Mar 27 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

looking Looking for God is the first thing and the last, but in between so much trouble, so much pain.

Mar 26 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

what if… only canary daffodils shining with spring faces squirrels raiding seeds, their little sly feet worms and gophers aerating the soil everyday…

Mar 22 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

satyagraha Sanskrit: insistence on truth hold to this, Gandhi’s path demand it— most important, model it yourself believe in moral courage resist…

Mar 19 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

stripped harsh dreams shock me awake bereft of hope, courage eroded where can I rest? in thin winter sunshine admiring daffodils, their faces turned to…

Mar 17 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

time for tonglen

time for tonglen when faced with havoc like our country is in, everyone shouting nobody listening—for the sake of wellbeing and a quieter mind I needed…

Mar 16 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

why is it? many parents want their children to be carbon copies of them?

Mar 10 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

taken when breath catches— rosy sunrise in all directions or fox kit’s delicate tongue sipping the birdbath I fall out of time, reeled into eternity…

Mar 9 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

salt shaker what sprinkled me into being?

Mar 7 •

Amrita Skye Blaine

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