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At Delphi

Posted on February 23, 2018February 23, 2018 by amelia admin

She holds her hands before her face So she cannot see, but feels instead. Her open palms take and gratefully receive Without the barrier of sight. She grows in a sequestered place, Where the dark is warm, Where laughter creeps along the floor And winds through her fingers in ribbons; Where, eyes closed and bathed…

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A Response to Plato, who Bans the Poets

Posted on February 21, 2018September 7, 2021 by amelia admin

Dear Plato, Beauty is the beginning… Sometimes, I wonder about beauty. Beauty must be what God is, what heaven will be to our senses. Different people perceive beauty differently, but for me, the most profound occurs in chiaroscuro–the interplay of shadow and light. I thrill at the moment dissonance blooms into harmony. Chills whisper down…

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A Forest King is Slain by a Lowly Woodsman

Posted on February 6, 2018February 6, 2018 by amelia admin

From the Book of Broken Odes Your sadness flutes through dowel holes cut by woodpeckers in flaking sycamores. They flutter bark and call the maple’s sons, the ones as well with sap and weep. And on their tears the mayfly’s tripwire legs alight to sup, its wings still – (flimsy fanatic, hardened heretic) – And…

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Sonnet #1

Posted on January 23, 2018October 13, 2019 by amelia admin

Here’s to trying to write like Shakespeare! Take a draft of cognac, and proceed with caution. (By the way, I think it’s very useful to write in rigid metrical rhythms. Free verse is so undisciplined that most of the time it’s junk. Compare writing to training for a marathon, or practicing for a piano concerto…

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About Amelia

Amelia Rasmusen Buzzard is a freelance writer. She graduated in 2021 from Hillsdale College summa cum laude with degrees in philosophy and German and currently resides in upstate New York.

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