The Slowdown: Poetry & Reflection Daily
Arts:Performing Arts
Today’s poem is Egrets, While War by Tishani Doshi.
The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual. In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s compelling poem honors the ancient and indomitable essence of human beings who continue on even in the face of tragedy, who crossover into the perfect fullness of their truth and emotions.”
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1051: Venus's Flytraps
1050: To The Woman Crying Uncontrollably in the Next Stall
1049: [I wandered lonely as a Cloud] or Daffodils
1048: You & the Donkey Cart
1047: To The Stone-Cutters
1046: After, We Try to Switch Our Hearts Back On
1045: Sonnet for Ochún
1044: Mixed Marriage
1043: from “Listen to the Golden Boomerang Return” by CAConrad
1042: Ode to Badminton
1041: By Then
1040: The Idea of Order at Key West
1039: What Good Is Silence
[encore] 877: The Lifeline
1038: The Book of Barely Imagined Beings
1037: An Open Call to Single Daughters of Single Mothers
1036: Pleasure
1035: The Darkling Thrush
1034: Cliché
1033: On Meeting My Biological Father
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