Free as a Bird... Bravely Unleashing Creativity: How Nature and Innovation Combine to Propel Your Creative Potential
Nature and Innovation Are Always Collaborating to Enhance Your Creativity
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Here is a spring offering to ignite your imagination and boost your creativity.
I am continually exploring how nature and innovation come together as creative evolution. This is something I wish to share as imagination is so important for our collective future. Nature, creativity and the space of imaginal exploration must be protected.
In the spring we look to the sky full of questions about the now. Is it sunny? Is rain coming? What birds are outside? What kind of poetry will I experience?
Here in the coastal mountain range of BC Canada spring is in full swing and the birds sing with the season. Birds remind us to break the rules of static perceived boundaries. Birds encourage us to receive the sun, surrender to the wind, and take pleasure found in the abundance after the rains. They show us we can insert our sound into the night or be silent with our wings through artful engagement.
Birds help us recall our nature to express and explore. Showing us what is possible in taking flight. If you really watch them, birds are quite silly, and I’ll take some of that vibe please and thanks. They are always having fun, I read they dance their way to new food sources.
One of my fave birds is the American Dipper, North America’s only aquatic song bird, who dances to keep warm between dives into cold waters. This post is an offering to dance us to new creative food sources, and to keep warm as the spring temps can still dip… so we better dance.
Let’s go!
Artists are like birds. Singing creations making something from nothing.
The urge to fly and depart the known. Trading yesterday for the unknown.
Ancient Humans learned language through birdsong.
Modern Humans were inspired to take flight at altitude also thanks to birds.
This and their geographic journeys have carried innovation as evolution on this planet.
Here is a poem encapsulating the energy from being immersed in bird watching in the woods. It was initally published in The Auroras & Blossoms PoArtMo Anthology, Volume 4
The Art of Birding
One flies into the trees
A yellow warbler
My heart leaps into the leaves
A green emanation
Delicate creature
Wearing its feathered frock
Gracefully present
It holds me in its song
I hold it with my gaze
Life lived in praise
The flutter
A plethora of movements
A wave like color
The sound
A choir, a scatter
A prayer born from pattern
The feeling
The sight
Everything is kneeling
The witness
The witnessed
The art of truly seeing.
<->Where shall we begin our journey, our creative adventure of each day? The sky is vibrant with life carrying myth. Stories painting pictures we can capture for further investigation.
Birds are storytellers of the changing winds. Listen.
Birds have the power to take our consciousness upwards. Far and wide reaching, transcending previous perspectives.
When I need a boost of inspiration, I look up.
Mix of Seasons, A Haiku
Is spring winter’s end
Mixing here under my boot
Life awakens now.
“Birds… have long been one of my most precious intercessors with the shadow that turns life to stone. Birds are the only creatures that can cross the three natural elements. They can walk on the earth, fly into the blue air and dream, and they can inhabit almost every realm, including water, as cormorants, lions, and pelicans plunge to fly beneath the waves.
We are born seeking wholeness. Birds can remind us of our original song, and of our acrobatic nature, and show us a beauty painted by the same brush as tropical flowers.” ~Stephen Levine, Animal Sutras
The sky is for the birds and our floating ides. Space is a non-negotiable necessity.
How can you make your life a work of art?
Questions are a creative act. Live the questions. Breathe the answers lingering on the waves of surface tension.
Innovation lives past the edges of the space between our visions.
Poetry is available in every moment. Be with the Change as Liberation.
Here is a poem about the experience of unity in nature.
Everything is a performance, yet nothing to perform. Just breathe and be and stay with the changing sky Rooted to the earth the wind air and the fire Inspiration cycles it will always come and go Be in and with the flow Sometimes like a rock strong at the edges sometimes like a wildflower fluid with the zephyrs. <->
Birds offer a call to notice. A reminder to let go.
A chance to disrupt and depart and defy.
To be present, to explore, to fly.
Birds call to us to harness the integration of elements.
To suspend our judgements, preventing us from playing wholeheartedly.
Here is a poem crafted from listening to nature’s wisdom.
The Call (Messages from The Elements)
Distant roses call out with drifting scents of floral codes of wonder
And who are we if not everything?
Who are we if not floating in a sea of both nothingness and the potentiality
of everything?
The plants ring sounds of color and light through tunnels of endless creation.
Life innovates by recreating itself through collaborative intertwining
of energy realizing itself forward.
Cycles of living and dying
there is no thing that is not compost to the greater whole.
Stepping away from over thinking
mind trading a parade of thoughts for the void of possible futures.
The inevitable slide of cosmos expanding and contracting.
The play of earth and atmosphere.
The dance of responding.
Ritual roots grow deep in the space of surrender to the natural harmony
of trance.
Transformation. Healing and tragedy as growth.
The arc of alchemy carries far the intention to manifest thriving life.
And so it is done in the way of the one.
All things come full circle in a spiralling pattern of always moving.
In and out. Up and down. Back and forth.
Let down the anchor of the sacred space of knowing the body as the wise wild home.
There is no where else to be other than here right now
and yet all of time weaves in all directions.
The spinning shuttle of spinning arrows.
The axis finds the Center, this moment.
The column of breath and being channels the fusion of elements.
Pleasure and pain are gateways to the same place.
Which will you choose?
Sometimes we are chosen.
Attachment brings no relief.
The only tether of value is connection beyond the individual.
And connection is fostered through authentic realization in depth of self.
Breathe.
The flow of air is birth again and again.
Gather energy.
Rest for containment, it contains creation through integration.
Follow the path by the river.
It will take you home.
<->Thanks for visiting my mage’s page of imaginal play. We must be brave in our creative adventuring. And share the treasures.
*Please comment or email me with your resonse to this post. I am curious how spring inspiration finds its way into your art & life*
Wishing you wonder and awe as you navigate your winding path,
NAN
may you be renewed in your wanderings ←>
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Good one Nici, Ilike the use of and referal of birds at play.