Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

Amrita Skye Blaine, author and poet

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as… when our “we the people” government turns on us we are the net catching, aiding, supporting each another knocking our neighbor’s door nourishing…
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signs
signs this ripe peach gives in to fingertips how the small, sharp knife lifts skin from the meat— sliced onto muesli sticky juice drips as the sweet…
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charge
charge while I float on poems threats of war spread what is my charge, how to carry this fear? it cannot be right to attack unprovoked innocents will be…
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amaranthine
amaranthine I’m having an affair with the word amaranthine, sprinkled with a spark of magenta, the mystery, how a plant comes to mean everlasting…
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sun rising
sun rising and still a tyrant rules it used to be faraway places now here, my home even as songbirds serenade me awake I will not watch— instead I stand…
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here
here plane crash, new war, worsening misunderstanding— our world, askew yet in my small realm jasmine’s scent soothes dove cocks her head peers down at…
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writer's dilemma
writer’s dilemma how to postpone morning’s bustle, rev of world news, email and work that ensnare lured from quiet’s pocket where words incubate deeper…
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I know better
I know better when sleep evades hooks snag me checking headlines I tumble into hell migrants harassed, detained deported cruel wars cryptocurrency that…
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a different kind
a different kind parent in Gaza loses nine of ten children, three countries to take over the world I turn from the bludgeoning news let reporting…
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outcry
outcry Your naked freedom is your shield —from Haleh Liza Gafori's translation of Rumi. backpack items water, snack, sunscreen mask, hat cane with a…
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corvid alarm
depositphotos.com AI-generated imagecorvid alarm firs by the house, their favorite roost every dawn a host of crows rattles me awake to begin my day…
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