Today’s poem is Feeding the Koi by Rosanna Young Oh. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem exemplifies those moments when sometimes we cannot speak or act on our truth because of debilitating fears. And on occasion, art is what provides clarity when we seek signs beyond the surface of our worlds.”

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Today’s poem is Signs, Music by Raymond Antrobus. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “I believe life, even the cosmos, is saturated with sound. I’m not alone. The ancient mathematician Pythagoras and his followers discovered that a harmony of sounds exists in our solar system, based on each planet’s orbit around the sun.”

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Today’s poem is Hillwood by Mark Jarman. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem calls us to the sounds of the earth and its creatures, where the imagination takes over as we doze off. Mind and body are primed for that somnambulant journey that is the unconscious.”

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Today’s poem is Totalitarian by Tyler Mills. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, Major writes… “Today’s poem makes the case that there are occasions in which I cannot let apathy rule, that the assaults on human dignity are so large, I must speak through my stunned witnessing.”

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Today’s poem is EGGSHELLS by Michael Kleber-Diggs. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “This poem makes me consider the great tension between one’s vision and one’s reality. I feel profundity in that the assertion of I will has lead to landing on distant moons.”

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Today’s poem is Might Kindred by Mónica Gomery. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Today’s poem is a seeking of belonging. My favorite part about it is how shyness and a longing for friendship coexist.”

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Today’s poem is Poem at the Top of a Mountain by Angel Nafis. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Today’s poem is about a prayerful space which offers not just withdrawal, but perspective. I see in this poem what it was that I found on my walk to my high school art room sanctuary. What appears to be aloneness is actually a deepening camaraderie.”

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Today’s poem is Things Haunt by Joshua Jennifer Espinoza. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “To meet one’s eyes in the mirror while grieving is to meet parts of the self that are unbearable, raw, jagged, self-judging and perhaps even unforgiving. Today’s poem reckons with one’s own gaze, but also with the warped gaze of others.”

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Today’s poem is Rain by Adrian Keith Smith. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Today’s short poem is by an extraordinary young monk, four year old Adrian Keith Smith. He may not be ordained, but he is a tremendously wise noticer. Like the Buddha, by simply observing the world around him, he grasps a mammoth truth that most adults struggle to accept.”

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Today’s poem is Through a closed mouth the flies enter by Pablo Neruda. The Slowdown is your daily poetry ritual.

In this episode, guest host Shira Erlichman writes… “Knowing is often heralded as more valuable than not knowing. So questions become an underground currency for those of us that appreciate a different way of being. Today’s poem understands that if a question is a jawbreaker you turn over and over, at its center is not an answer, but humility.”

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