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the over-eighty rat race
This poem is a new form to me, a Gogyoshi. It is a modern Japanese form, with a title and exactly five free-verse lines. No rhyme schemes, line-length…
Aug 11
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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knowing other poets
knowing other poets like sighthounds are to other dogs— wholly different, aware, intuitive so poets are to other people noticing detail hearts more…
Aug 10
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Paradox
Paradox We’re made local for a time, each of us a point on this sphere of billions and growing No number’s large enough to count all manifest things a…
Aug 8
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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What Cannot Be Shared
What Cannot Be Shared We draw lines on a map call this side ours the other side yours taken so seriously a silly business land belongs to land We…
Aug 7
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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What Makes Us Who We Are
What Makes Us Who We Are Scarred, broken, twisted our wounds the cleft-lip scar Cesarean slash entrance, exit wounds the unseen heartbreak rift and…
Aug 4
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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He doesn't tell me
He doesn’t tell me disappears into the bathroom stays ten minutes no toilet sound flushing comes out with a small brown paper bag—rolled tight at the…
Aug 3
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The Way It Is
The Way It is a tanka We live in rough grace offering stubborn praise When they meet we are reborn unexpected, astonished, whole
Aug 1
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Furnishings
Furnishings House furnishings dogs’ facial hair, also called furnishings and we are entrapped by the furnishings of our mind Naming, judgments…
Jul 31
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The Tongue and the Heart
The Tongue and the Heart Pause the tongue, allow the heart’s forward momentum, never flippant speaking the highest truth it knows The reckless tongue a…
Jul 30
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Quieting the Mind
Quieting the Mind On the cushion struggled for years focusing on this, then that Ha!
Jul 28
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Open
Open This is my vision— May I be a door that is propped open ready to help accessible, loving
Jul 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Those shoes
Those Shoes the ones that didn’t fit my mother wanted me to wear? For sixty-three years I tried her way No room for my toes to breathe Finally pitched…
Jul 23
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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