prarthoMay 31 minIn Friendship's GardenPrartho's new painting, In Friendship's Garden, paired with her poem How to Befriend Uncertainty
prarthoApr 261 min Garden SutraThe title poem & cover image from Prartho's debut collection, the Chapbook GARDEN SUTRA
prarthoMar 281 minDiagraming the SentenceDiagraming the Sentence Our subject is light. Modified by the stained glass window and the silt-gray puddle beyond the porch where...
prarthoMar 141 minLetting 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...
prarthoMar 71 minperhaps 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...
prarthoFeb 281 min"A Day in the sUn on Turtle Island" Paired with my Pushcart nominated poemPuccini Plays on Turtle Island This morning I cleaned house and did laundry — the underwear drawer well-stocked and tidy again. Then it...
prarthoJan 161 minVisit my Immersive Online ShoW: Paint & Poems in ConversationThis Month only! The 21 paintings on my Painted Poems Blog are featured with over-voices of me reading the poems. Have a listen here:...
prarthoSep 16, 20201 minpainted poem #21/21Let the boat of your regret unmoor itself and drift away. The shimmer of harbor lights will reappear when that great dark ship...
prarthoSep 15, 20201 minpainted poem #20/21The name, for example, for the lightness that can blow through a heart and lift it from the body, sail it round the world.
prarthoSep 14, 20201 minpainted poem #19/21a moth-eaten version of Indra’s Net, where my tangled knots catch the light of the endless jewels of morning.
prarthoSep 13, 20201 minpainted poem #18/21Bodies so effortlessly slipped from they looked like paper lanterns or little wooden boats, scoured and dry-docked for the winter
prarthoSep 13, 20201 minpainted poem #17/21in India I found if nothing else cowbell clangor persists life remains peculiar
prarthoSep 9, 20201 minpainted poem #15/21It’s just like they say, she told me. Your life flashes before you. But it’s not what you think.
prarthoSep 7, 20201 minpainted poem #14/21Empty as the night would be with its owl sailing through it.
prarthoSep 6, 20201 minpainted poem #13/21In spite of what has or hasn’t flown through these days—a bird has perched—just like Emily promised—in your soul.
prarthoSep 5, 20201 minpainted poem #12/21You tell me you are part of something old now. You cannot believe the way the sky opened inside the cathedral...
prarthoSep 4, 20201 minpainted poem #11/21Prepare for love to break you into all the pieces necessary for something unknown to be born of you.
prarthoSep 3, 20201 minpainted poem #10/21 I learned to sleep standing on the savanna, rocked in a long slow chorus of grass-scented breath…