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Contagion
Contagion Kind words easing out may not be met yet I must stay with them compassion is needed I signal a lane change driver flips me the finger Young…
Sep 19
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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My dog-eared heart
Dear honored readers: here are poems (most freshly edited) that I posted on Wordpress before moving to Substack year and a half ago, and early after I…
Aug 14
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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9
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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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Dog in a Cone
Dog in a Cone Leggy, her long, lean body, patrician nose, knowing dark eyes that anchor into mine When, for her well-being we slip on the cone affix it…
Aug 9
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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7
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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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Kinship
Kinship She comes from faraway, daughter of my husband’s good friend now gone Although no shared blood, family for sure With care, rummaging on tablets…
Jul 20
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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5
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Four-Legged Complication
Four-Legged Complication Reactive to doorbells and dogs with prick ears Digs for the center of the earth—first clue brown-encrusted nose Paws on the…
Jun 18
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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4
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Adopting
Adopting Starter requires daily nourishment and love so I named her Daisy and croon to her When bread day approaches she needs closer attention, I time…
Jun 2
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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8 p.m.
8 p.m.
May 25
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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My Dream
My Dream Thirty-one years I yearned— For three hopeful ones, stuffed $20 bills in a knee sock hanging in my closet Finally, the call Thirteen wolfhound…
May 18
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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The After
The After with thanks to Ellen Girardeau Kempler Of course there’s an after, cosmos still swirling and expanding in the wake of my body, gone—but I…
May 5
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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Pre-Dawn
Pre-Dawn Dog woke me at five standing nearby peeping to go out Early morning slog find glasses, shoes, coat it’s chilly out there Leash means business…
Apr 17
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Amrita Skye Blaine
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