In Friendship's Garden
Prartho's new painting, In Friendship's Garden, paired with her poem How to Befriend Uncertainty
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Apr 26, 20221 min read
Garden Sutra
The title poem & cover image from Prartho's debut collection, the Chapbook GARDEN SUTRA
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prartho
Apr 4, 20221 min read
& What does the Blue-Footed booby love?
Time for a little love-infused foolishness
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prartho
Mar 28, 20221 min read
Diagraming the Sentence
Diagraming the Sentence Our subject is light. Modified by the stained glass window and the silt-gray puddle beyond the porch where...
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prartho
Mar 14, 20221 min read
Letting the mystery flap through us...
Sleeping with the Ravens All night they flapped through me on blue-black wings. By morning every hair on my head had gone white and was...
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prartho
Mar 7, 20221 min read
perhaps The Profound is hiding in the small
Today's post is my own reminder to open my eyes & heart to the smallest beings & moments, to let in the possibility that they are just...
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prartho
Feb 28, 20221 min read
"A Day in the sUn on Turtle Island" Paired with my Pushcart nominated poem
Puccini Plays on Turtle Island This morning I cleaned house and did laundry — the underwear drawer well-stocked and tidy again. Then it...
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prartho
Jan 16, 20221 min read
Visit my Immersive Online ShoW: Paint & Poems in Conversation
This Month only! The 21 paintings on my Painted Poems Blog are featured with over-voices of me reading the poems. Have a listen here:...
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prartho
Sep 16, 20201 min read
painted poem #21/21
Let the boat of your regret unmoor
itself and drift away. The shimmer
of harbor lights will reappear
when that great dark ship...
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prartho
Sep 15, 20201 min read
painted poem #20/21
The name, for example, for the lightness
that can blow through a heart and lift it
from the body, sail it round the world.
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prartho
Sep 14, 20201 min read
painted poem #19/21
a moth-eaten version
of Indra’s Net, where my tangled
knots catch the light
of the endless jewels of morning.
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prartho
Sep 13, 20201 min read
painted poem #18/21
Bodies so
effortlessly slipped from
they looked like paper lanterns
or little wooden boats, scoured
and dry-docked for the winter
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prartho
Sep 13, 20201 min read
painted poem #17/21
in India I found if nothing else
cowbell clangor persists life remains peculiar
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prartho
Sep 10, 20201 min read
painted poem#16/21
all his life
the light
sifted
through him
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prartho
Sep 9, 20201 min read
painted poem #15/21
It’s just like they say,
she told me. Your life flashes
before you. But it’s not
what you think.
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prartho
Sep 7, 20201 min read
painted poem #14/21
Empty as the night would be
with its owl sailing through it.
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prartho
Sep 6, 20201 min read
painted poem #13/21
In spite of what has
or hasn’t flown through
these days—a bird has
perched—just like Emily
promised—in your soul.
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prartho
Sep 5, 20201 min read
painted poem #12/21
You tell me
you are part of something
old now. You cannot believe
the way the sky opened
inside the cathedral...
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prartho
Sep 4, 20201 min read
painted poem #11/21
Prepare for love to break you
into all the pieces necessary
for something unknown
to be born of you.
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prartho
Sep 3, 20201 min read
painted poem #10/21
I learned to sleep standing
on the savanna, rocked in a long slow
chorus of grass-scented breath…
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