The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is The Mothers by Jill Bialosky.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem beautifully captures those complex emotions of watching our children emerge into themselves — and its threat to our identity.”
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1174: Separation Wall by Naomi Shihab Nye
1173: Sono by Suji Kwock Kim
1172: From Blossoms by Li-Young Lee
1171: One Art by Elizabeth Bishop
1170: The Way by Cynthia Cruz
1169: from "American Analects" by Gary Young
1168: Refusing Rilke's “You must change your life” by Remica Bingham-Risher
1167: Transfusion by Shara Lessley
1166: Wind Poem by Song Yu, translated by Chloe Garcia Roberts
1165: Pando Aspen Clone by Jacqueline Balderrama
1164: Act of Gratitude by Cyrus Cassells
1163: Voice Clear As by Kemi Alabi
1162: But Beautiful by Rodney Terich Leonard
1161: Each Morning Again by Rose McLarney
1160: Naïve by Tim Seibles
1159: We Never Stop Talking About Our Mothers by Diannely Antigua
1158: A Blessing by Samyak Shertok
1157: from “Requiem 1935-1940” by Anna Akhmatova, translated by Stanley Kunitz and Max Hayward
1156: In Love by Chloe Martinez
1155: A Toast by Oksana Zabuzhko
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