Thank you, Debra of "She Who Seeks" for gifting us a beautiful poem by Danusha Laméris, "Small Kindnesses", on your blog this morning.
This is the second time in as many weeks that fellow bloggers have posted a passage or poem that stopped me in my tracks; made me sit. Exhale. Read. Contemplate the careful words, their order and meaning. Moving With Mitchell did that for me with his moving tribute to his late sister on "The Kids in the hall" blog post. It made me realize we need more of that. To stop speed-reading passages and posts; to instead read with the heart.
We need more poetry in our lives. I think the last time I let myself get absorbed in poetry was listening to Amanda Gorman reading her "The Hill We Climb" at President Biden's inauguration.
Perhaps, through poetry, we can learn to breathe... to heal.
Thank you, Debra and Mitchell!
Rade
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Poetry is unjustly ignored and underrated in our society. A good poem can touch our hearts in a way other forms of expression can't, with a single word or a short turn of phrase.
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