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Setting Aside
Setting Aside When I set aside worry let pain be both present and nameless sunlight spills brighter shadows gather my gaze as they shift with the air My…
7 hrs ago
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Joy is Coming
Joy Is Coming Around the corner dissolving clouds sunlight pools, catches my cheek Before thought undoes me my face turns toward warmth and feels…
Sep 28
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Return
Return So many rounds breaking apart coming together could be feelings or aging— similar weather messy, sloppy, painful The turn between unraveling and…
Sep 27
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Remembering to Be Grateful
Remembering to Be Grateful When it’s painful to walk and my spirits lag I turn to house finches dancing in the bath fussing at the feeder flittering…
Sep 26
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Warm Breath
Warm Breath The cycles obvious at equinox Prediction, not promise of eighties today A few more tomatoes may blush be plucked for mozzarella and basil…
Sep 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The Turn
The Turn As bushes seek late-summer sun shadows cast on the slatted fence Last tomatoes ripening in the late seasonal heat caprese soon to end Geese…
Sep 23
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Fo-Ti
Fo-Ti Sure we’d lost her last winter, this medicinal Chinese plant a friend for seventeen years, in a pot cut back to a dead-looking shred We moved and…
Sep 22
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Summer’s Ready
Summer’s Ready The gift of a bright warm day already autumn’s hint, a subtle chill Filling feeders again squirrels, birds, their final fattening Our…
Sep 17
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Learning New Words at Eighty
Learning New Words at Eighty Metonymy, synecdoche, even irony I couldn’t define Now I’m asked to find them, use them pronounce them make them mine I…
Sep 14
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Bridge
Bridge An elegant try We lost ourselves—forgot what we’re made of It’s messy the cosmos showcasing chaos societies inside-out in a heartbeat I weep and…
Sep 9
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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First Rain
new poem
Sep 3
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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A Thousand Miles
(new poem)
Sep 2
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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