I Am A Perfectly Imperfect Woman, A Poem

A time of reflection, exploring and redefining the idea of perfection.

Celebrating Winter Solstice and Wishing You Tidings of Peace & Joy. In this time of release and reflection, I am redefining what perfection means to me. Poetry and Art is one way I relate to the universe and explore/make sense of it all. Perhaps you can relate. That is my hope. May All Beings Be Peaceful and Free. Through our expression we our cocreating a new collective language and an evolving community from earth to cosmos.

I am a perfectly imperfect woman.


An old soul in a

middle aged body

With a young beginner’s mind

A naive heart

A Crone before her time.


Young at root

A defiant and joyous spirit

Both

Wildly inappropriate

And

Awkwardly reserved

And

Somewhere roaming

Between.


An extra-vert that is

Incontrovertibly inward.

Down in the details

While dancing skyward.


I speak to softly

I laugh too loudly

I snore and drool

I embrace the fool.


I live as a Queen among Queens

A dreamer of dreams

Both naughty and nice

There's always a thrice.


A lover of life

Living life to celebrate

Our perspective

Is our gate.


I see too much

I say too little

This is my voice

Exploring this riddle.


I shuffle my emotions

Sorting truths with devotion

Thoughts in motion

Feeling peace and commotion.


I avoid my own truth

One day

And post directions to my heart

On others.


A heart that bleeds

On my sleeve

And heaves

At the seams

Sliding behind

What’s perceived

Creating what

I choose to see.


A Heart that hides

in disguise

A heart that soars

and flies.


Over Peaks

From valleys deep

My life is my art

A celebration, a feat.


I am both ignorant and wise

Sometimes

Skipping a salad for the fries

Who's counting, def not me

Except the days when I do

What can I say I am quite unruly, too.


The way unfolding

As steps make their mark

The light returns now to

This dance with the dark.


Choices challenge, gently I tend

Learning to be my own best friend.

~Nichola Napora, The Embodied Explorer

All writing, art & photography copywritten by Nichola Napora @ Mystic Peaks Studio Contact for use, I’m pretty generous :)